When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest. - Stephen King

He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side — you beat a typewriter instead of your meat, but both acts depended largely on quick wits, fast hands and a heartfelt commitment to the art of the farfetched.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.