God pounds his nails. - Stephen King

When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair