“Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”

“Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, theres always something waiting, and even if its bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do?...”

“But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowmanyou are as an animal'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.”

“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.”

“Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "exactly what happened in that house that night." Twice now he'd been told, and the two versions w...”

“Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.”

“It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.”

“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. Its okay if you have to leave us. Its okay if you want to stop fighting.”

“I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her e...”

“You will always find someone ahead of you even if you overtake someone on the highway called LIFE”

“The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflect...”

“Absolutely Nothing" the next 22 miles the highway sign said. Of course it was wrong!”