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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.
Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details.
If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.
If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.
If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself
Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.
Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us
...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.
Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.
Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.
The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.
Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.
Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find.
Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.
People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet
I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.
I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.
Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.
Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.
The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.
Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.
In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?
Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.