Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison. But below that, there's a part of us that responds to the Who bashing their instruments to pieces on the stage. There's a very primitive part that says, "Do it some more."

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.