Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Mister, we deal in lead.

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.