They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn’t like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

My heart’s with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we’ll remember in our dreams.

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

What he knows now is that guilt isn’t the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.

In a book, all would have gone according to plan… but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucial conversations of your life took...

there’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.

Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—because those two reactions are rather close. Most things we laugh at are things that are really horrible, when...

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

No conseguiría zafarse del terror que se había apoderado de su corazón. Tendría que aprender a aceptarlo.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn’t, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she...

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or to a little girl’s tears; that she wept over its cruel...

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

I can’t understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there’s already so much pain in the world.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

To the loving eye, even smallpox scars are beautiful.

Home is where they want you to stay longer

Confucius say if man want to grow one row of corn, first must shovel one ton of shit.

That lesson suggests that in the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe.

Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

The town knew about darkness. It knew about the darkness that comes on the land when rotation hides the land from the sun, and about the darkness of the human soul. The town is an...

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

If a book is not alive in the writer’s mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.

I’ll see you.’He grinned. ‘Not if i see you first.

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

Oigo voces en mi cabeza, y si no recuerdo mal, lo he hecho siempre.

God makes it all come right in the end, that’s what Johnnie told Dock Barker just before we parted company. I was raised a Christian-I admit I fell away a bit along my journey-and I...

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn’t belong in a smart people’s club.

The truth has to come out, that’s the basis of art. But that’s not to say the world must see it. Be brave. Don’t be afraid to draw the secret things. No one said art...

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn’t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

Many writing texts caution against asking friends to read your stuff, suggesting you’re not apt to get a very unbiased opinion[.] … It’s unfair, according to this view, to put a pal in such a...

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.

What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.

…and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. … Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and...

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The things a man sees when he ain’t got a gun.–Watson the Caretaker

The world’s a hard place, Danny. It don’t care. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they’re things no one can explain. Good...

You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.

Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.

Do you drink?””Of course,I just said I was a writer.