Quotes from Stephen King

Music matters," he told me once. "Pop fiction goes away, TV shows go away, and I defy you to tell me what you saw at the movies two years ago. But music lasts, even pop music. Especially pop music. Sneer at 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' if you want to, but people will still be listening to that silly piece of shit fifty

College is always a time of change, I guess, the last major convulsion of childhood

How we danced! - Sadie

People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by feelings of love and responsibility.

The snow that began at midafternoon had faded the sign's virulent yellow to a kinder pastel shade as the light ran out of the January dusk.

I can see your dirtypillows.

One last thing. End of Watch is fiction, but the high rate of suicides—both in the United States and in many other countries where my books are read—is all too real. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline number given in this book is also real. It's 1-800-273-TALK. If you are feeling poopy (as Holly Gibney would say), give them a call. Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do. Stephen

There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?

Shiny happy people don't hold guns in their laps that way.

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

Hearts are tough. Most times they don't break. Most times they only bend.

In scenes like these, any man could be Iago.

Then that's all right, isn't it?

God doesn't have a plan, He throws pickup sticks.

Whatever lay ahead, he was glad to be alive.

A child doesn't understand a hammer until he's mashed his finger at a nail. Get up and stop whining, maggot! You have forgotten the face of your father!

A person sometimes believes she's seen all the way to the bottom of the well of human stupidity, and a reminder that that well apparently has no bottom is sometimes useful.

But eventually, something will happen. Something always does. And when it does... I will come to Mother.

Da-da chum da-da che, not to worry you've got the key!

But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

expect nothing but never lose hope.

Come on and take your medicine!

It was that kind of story. The kind that's like a sneeze which threatens but never quite arrives.