Ron Clarkson

“I tend to go through periods of idleness followed by periods of workaholic frenzy.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“In the end, Miss Margitan settled for a formal apology and two weeks of detention for the bad boy who had dared call her Maggot in print. It was bad, but what in high school is not? At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Young men, we must give thanks for this day and for every day, no matter how flawed. Bow your heads, give your gratitude to God, and have faith in him, and in a better tomorrow.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky