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One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you’ve got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn’t just happenstance.

Their perpetual readiness for play is endearing, and their willingness to forgive deception time after time is one of the key differences between the heart of a dog and the human heart. Trixie.

I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.

It is the purpose for which we exist. This reckless caring.

What’s gotten into you today? All evening.

Any town can die without actually drying up and blowing away. It can be as dead as a ghost town even with people still living in it.” Gazing.

I’ve had good publishers and bad publishers, and you’ve got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it’s not.

The life of a seamstress is no smaller than the life of a queen, the life of a child with Down syndrome no less filled with promise than the life of a philosopher, because the only significant measure of your life is the positive effect you have on others, either by conscious acts of will or by unconscious example.

For the first time in three years, Travis Cornell felt needed, felt a deep connection with another living creature. For the first time in three years, he had a reason to live. He.

I never discuss a novel while I’m writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

There’s never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel – you would know his name very well – but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

In nightmares, we can’t look into our own eyes except by indirection, perhaps because we fear discovering that therein lie the worst monsters plaguing us.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he’s the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

As much as I’ve produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn’t that – because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

My parents didn’t raise me to ask God for blessings or benefits. For guidance, yes. For the strength to do the right thing, yes. Not for a winning lottery number, not for love or health, or happiness. Prayer is not a gimme list; God isn’t Santa Claus.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

Furies, Alecto. In classic mythology, Tisiphone and Megaera and Alecto, daughters of the earth goddess Gaea, punished crimes in the name of the victims.

What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.

In my personal life, I’m a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we’re human beings.

I think it’s the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don’t write very well.

Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in “experts”.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn’t enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

I think it’s perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they’re not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn’t correlate.

A politician’s goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Being paid well for something you love to do – it’s a grace.

When I’m working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

While life could be evaded, death could not.

Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we’re being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it’s like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

And your three-year-old Ford Explorer,” Terezin said, “bought without your parents’ money, a proud statement of your independence – of course it has a GPS.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

There’s still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

You’ve got to remember whatever happens-it’s only life, we all get through it.

Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance.

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

I believed suddenly not merely in evil as a necessary antagonist in movies and books – bad guys and boogeymen – not merely in evil as the consequence of parental rejection or parental indulgence or social injustice, but in Evil as a presence alive in the world.

I think the world is an interesting place and I don’t think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there’s a purpose.

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

Only the human monster knew beauty and rejected it, knew truth and disdained it, knew peace and did not prefer it, unlike the tiger and the wolf who knew not.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

I don’t find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn’t going to happen.

Haven’t you noticed, insanity is the new normal?

Intensity. He believes in living with intensity.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.