Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

• 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.
• Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
• There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
• Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
• In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
• I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
• Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
• Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
• I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
• 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.