"Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them."

"…of the langoliers, who obviously did not know, they were lurking everywhere, behind every bush and tree, in every sh…"

"Shortly after the fourth anniversary is the optimum time for divorce, he would tell them."

"If you want something to kick around the house, buy a dog."

"… all children are afraid from time to time, especially in situations that are new to them."

"He had always believed that if anyone was absolutely right to play the consumptive dentist, De Niro was the one."

"He had been flying passengers long enough to know a good bit…about their group psychology. When a passenger freaked o…"

"I've found, though, that in real life coincidence is not the exception but the rule."

"Deep in the trenches carved into the floors of the Pacific and the Indian Oceans, there are fish which live and die w…"

"He remembered a pilot telling him once, 'They pay us a hundred thousand dollars or more a year, Brian, and they reall…"