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Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

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It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, wa...more

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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

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... what I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help ...more

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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

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Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.

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The gotta, as in: “I think I’ll stay up another fifteen-twenty minutes, honey, I gotta see how this chapter comes out.” Even though the guy who says i...more

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I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to ...more

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He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thi...more