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Death is when the monsters get you.
STEPHEN KING, Salem's Lot
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills.
STEPHEN KING, interview, Sept. 14, 2000
Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!
STEPHEN KING, The Gunslinger
There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.
In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.
STEPHEN KING (as Richard Bachman), Blaze
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
STEPHEN KING, Hearts in Atlantis
At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that.
STEPHEN KING, introduction, The Gunslinger
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.
Stupid was a prison they never let you out of, no time off for good behavior, you were in for life.
STEPHEN KING (as Richard Bachman), Blaze
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
STEPHEN KING, Danse Macabre
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
STEPHEN KING, Wolves of the Calla
Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.
Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
STEPHEN KING, Needful Things
Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.
STEPHEN KING, Entertainment Weekly, Aug. 17, 2007
You should never trust a person who prays in public.
It's up to men to build things ... it's up to God to blow them down.
STEPHEN KING, The Drawing of the Three
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.
STEPHEN KING, Danse Macabre
In this day and age when everybody thinks psychology is God's gift to the poor old anally fixated human race and even the president of the United States pops a trank before dinner, it's really a good way to get rid of those Old Testament guilts that keep creeping up our throats like the aftertaste of a bad meal we overate. If you say your father hated you as a kid, you can go out and flash the neighborhood, commit rape, or burn down the Kinights of Pythias bingo parlor and still cop a plea... But it also means that no one will believe you if it's true.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.
STEPHEN KING, The Gunslinger
When facts speak, the wise man listens.
STEPHEN KING, The Wind through the Keyhole
There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.
When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.
STEPHEN KING, Entertainment Weekly, Aug. 17, 2007
Time is a face on the water.
STEPHEN KING, Wolves of the Calla
Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutterball when you're bowling with the girls in the leage. True sorrow is as rare as true love.
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.
I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.
STEPHEN KING, interview, Sept. 14, 2000
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
STEPHEN KING, Wolves of the Calla
Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.
STEPHEN KING, The Wind through the Keyhole
If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.
STEPHEN KING, The Drawing of the Three
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty--loyalty to King, to country, to government.
STEPHEN KING, The Eyes of the Dragon
A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.
People are blind to explanations that lie outside their perception of reality.
STEPHEN KING, The Outsider
Dreams are the way we touch the unseen world, that's what I believe. They are a special gift. Even the bad ones.
STEPHEN KING, The Outsider
If you can't let go of the past, the mistakes you've made will eat you alive.
STEPHEN KING, The Outsider
When it comes to the past, EVERYONE writes fiction.
Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so--pardon the pun--so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.
That's how you know you're home, I think, no matter how far you've gone from it or how long you've been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.
Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.
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