"There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite laws, which he described as Murphys law or the fourth law of thermodynamics (actually there were only three last I heard) which states: If anything can go wrong it will."

-- Anne Roe

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“Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.”

Source : "Stephen King's Wife Spins P'cola Yarn". Interview with Sam Baltrusis, www.inweekly.net. June 15, 2006.
“There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all of us feel we have a book inside us. It isn't an illusion. We have got a book inside us.”
“I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists, that is different from your day-to-day reality.”
“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is ...”
“Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?”

Source : Helen Humphreys (2006). “Wild Dogs: A Novel”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company
“I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.”
“The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows.”

Source : "No Shame, No Sense and a $296 Billion Bill". www.washingtonpost.com. July 20, 2006.
“Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”

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