Quotes from Stephen King

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.

A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there's so much worth saving.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

We're news junkies in my house.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.