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When he remembered to turn and look for it, the Talisman was gone.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

We are the True Knot," they responded. "What is tied may never be untied.

There's really no just about it, is there?

So exquisitely slopped that he didn't know if he was on land or at sea.

This is what happened.

Woody Allen was right: eighty percent of success is just showing up. "Take

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

That the hungover eye had a weird ability to find the ugliest things in any given landscape.

The dead river of its breath would wash over him.

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

The way I look at it, checkbook love is better than no love at all.

band behind them. The crowd moved and shifted. Tickertape and confetti fluttered down from the second- and third-floor windows of the business

Tharn. It was a good word for a bad state of mind.

Baseball is also a game of balance.

leaving Sobriety City on the Alcohol Express). She

In this universe there might grow roses which sing.

Guilt is like a sore, endlessly fascinating, and the guilty party feels compelled to examine it and pick at it, so that it never really heals.

Ka is a friend to evil as well as good. It embraces both.

Literature instead of cleanliness was next to godliness.

Come from the shadow of yourself, if you dare.

Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores.

This is how it goes when Homeland Security's been canceled due to lack of sanity.

Grammar is ... the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

MY CHILD IS AN HONOR STUDENT AT THE STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY,

of elective office), the yearly term was voted in.

Adults are the real monsters.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver, he thought. The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

Make-up covers a multitude of sins.

You can't blame human nature, and there was nothing more human than curiosity.

You know what, kid? It's guys like you who give reading a bad name.

No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.

Quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time

This is a place between, Susannah; a place where shadows are cancelled and time holds its breath. Then

no one dies happy, you can only die well

But eventually, something will happen. Something always does. And when it does ...
I will come to Mother.

The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing.

He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

He had never in his life felt so undecided about so many things, and he wanted to cry.

Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

George Orwell knew when he wrote 1984: if you say a thing often enough, it will be accepted as truth.

The horrors of the Inquisition are nothing compared to the fates your mind can imagine for your loved ones.

Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.

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.

I think different. And I can think different if I want to.

Hello?" he asked as he went ... just so that anyone intent on killing him would know exactly where to look.

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

Depressives kill themselves. Psychotics, rocked in the poison cradles of their own egos, want to do everyone handy a favor and take them along. I'm

You don't have to live this way if you don't want to. You CAN, of course ... but you don't have to.

If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.

Responding to non sequiturs - at cocktail parties, on public transportation, in ticket lines at the movie theater - is dicey enough,

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond.

The CIA has been at the root of every dirty little war America has fought in this century. The CIA and dollar diplomacy.

Hi, Lloyd," he said. "A little slow tonight, isn't it?" Lloyd

People change; sometimes they go up the ladder and sometimes they go down.

Sometimes you can't help people. Sometimes it's better not even to try.

The things of the world fell by the wayside, you lost your speed and your eyesight and your fucking Electric Boogaloo, but literature was eternal,

Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.

Why do people do that to gifted people? Is it jealousy? Fear? Both, maybe. But this kid had the advantage of knowing how good he was.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

... When a person stops changing, stops feeling, they die ...

I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!

And then the world exploded.

Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

Nineteen is the age where you say Look out, world, I'm smokin' TNT and I'm drinkin' dynamite, so if you know what's good for ya, get out of my way -

There can be a big difference between what you think is great and what you actually like.

I am what ka and the King and the Tower have made me. We all are. We're caught.

Then she screamed. There were no words in it, nor could there have been. Our greatest moments of triumph are always inarticulate.

Fiction is the truth in the lie.

Shake the hand that shook the world.

Ware the man who fakes a limp.

When things got weird enough, some always found a lynchrope, it seemed.

There's little in life that's so disheartening as constant cold.

She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn't be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur.

When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Fear is actually an acronym for Fuck Everything And Run.

What's a self-respecting amusement park without a ghost?

After all, everyone casts a shadow.

That was it. In Annie's view all the people in the world were divided into three groups: brats, poor poor things ... and Annie.

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Such lack of understanding was frightening. He's right, the gunslinger thought. We are broken. Gods help us.

It was one of those perfect summer days which, in a world where everything was on track and on the beam, you would never forget.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

The 'lady' looks as if she'd be happy to fuck a rope, could she make it stand up between her thighs.

The wise man doesn't poke a sleeping bear with a stick.

Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.