If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I’ll be all right as long as there’s a lending library.
Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen.
Nobody likes a clown at midnight.
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
She couldn’t be on his wavelength all the time. That’s all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar.
As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?
A cat won’t curry favor even if it’s in their best interests to do so. A cat can’t be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.
The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.
If God gives you something you can do, why in God’s name wouldn’t you do it?
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.
Once again there was the desert, and that only.
I believe in evil, but all my life I’ve gone back and forth about whether or not there’s an outside evil, whether or not there’s a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively.