“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”

“Oh Christ, I left my world to watch a kid put shoes on a fucked-up weasel. Shoot me Roland, before I breed.”

“Oh, about beer I never lie,’ Crandall said. ‘A man who lies about beer makes enemies.”

“Never trust anything a fiction writer says about himself.”

“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.”

“I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.”

“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground, and you just pick them up.”