Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's the kind of book that's impossible to put down once it has been picked up. It kept me reading far into the night. Straub builds otherworldly terror without ever losing touch with his attractive cast of youngsters, who age beautifully. Put this one high on your list.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.