Quotes from Stephen King

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both good story and good words, treasure that book.

Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.

The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon?

If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.

Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.

But people love a hypocrite, you know——they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

Everyone needs a hobby," he said. "And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.

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

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa...

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

Kill you all! The clown was laughing and screaming. Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.