Stephen King

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.

I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.)

It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.

And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.