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"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."
"Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting."
"we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts."
"The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses."
"I work until beer o'clock."
"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific 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."
"After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it."
"Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe."
"The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty."
"Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split."
"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?"
"I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it."
"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"
"Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie."
"A man who lies about beer makes enemies."
"Relief loosens tongues beyond measure."
"If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast."
"The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size."
"You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen."