It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.
In these silences something may rise
If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?
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.
I don’t want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)…
I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.
Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.
He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.
He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.
He has promised himself that he’ll try not to stuff his Dark Tower fantasies with unpronounceable words in some made-up (not to say fucked-up) language—his editor, Chuck Verrill in New York, will only...
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? Harry Blakemoor died with his tie on. I like it, Larry.
God's grace is a pretty cool concept. It stays intact every time it's not you.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.
Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.
Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street. A teenage boy named Albert Schweitzer getting out of a bathtub and...
Don't ask me silly questionsI won't play silly gamesI'm just a simple choo choo trainAnd I'll always be the same.I only want to race alongBeneath the bright blue skyAnd be a happy choo choo trainUntil...
Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, likediamonds, was forever.
Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.