I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
From Dean Koontz
If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
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