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" The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet. "

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" I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. "

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" It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. "

" Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us. "

" You have to stay faithful to what you're working on. "

" We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. "

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" God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. "

" I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. "

" I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. "

" Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read. "

" What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. "

" And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. "

" When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' "

" I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. "

" I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. "

" The devil's voice is sweet to hear. "

" 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. "

" Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. "

" He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? "

" I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. "

" I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me. "

" No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. "

" People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. "

" And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react. "

" The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. "