Quotes from Stephen King

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.

The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.

Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

I tend to scare myself.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...

Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

I am, he thought dimly, watching a vampire take a piss.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.