What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM

I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.

I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.