Stephen King

Memory is the basis of every journey.

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.

The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

The most important things are the hardest to say

You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It’s only kids in high school who are convinced they’re never going to change. There’s always going to be a pep rally and there’s always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.