Quotes from Stephen King

Stand and be true

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it's so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

The ladder had always held us before, we thought it would always hold us again, which is a philosophy that gets men and nations in trouble time after time.

Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn't drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it's what alkies are wired up to do. Creative people probably do run a greater risk of alcoholism and addiction than those in some other jobs, but so what? We all look pretty much the same when we're puking in the gutter.

I had a friend who used to tell me that all the time," Holly said, and suddenly felt like crying. It was that phrase—I had a friend. Time had passed, and time probably did heal all wounds, but God, some of them healed so slowly. And the difference between I have and I had was such a gulf.

And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

Lots of people have got a little of what I call the shining, but mostly it's just a twinkle---the kind of thing that lets em know what the DJ's going to play next on the radio or that the phone's gonna ring pretty soon.

I'm not laughing at you guys, King said. It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger.

And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.

I'm sorry I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture!

It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.

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.

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'.

PRECOGNITION, TELEPATHY, BULLSHIT! EAT MY DONG, YOU EXTRASENSORY TURKEY!

Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.

The over-all impression is one of a town that is waiting to die. It is not enough, these days, to say that Chamberlain will never be the same. It may be closer to the truth to say that Chamberlain will simply never again be.

It's just that if there's a God, he's doing a piss poor job.

In his heart, hope—that indestructible weed of the human heart—had begun to bloom again.

You get used to the amazing, that's all. Mermaids and IMAX, giants and cell phones. If it's in your world, you go with it. It's wonderful, right? Only look at it another way, and it's sort of awful. Think Gogmagog is scary? Our world is sitting on a potentially world-ending supply of nuclear weapons, and if that's not black magic, I don't know what is.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen, she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

You're a firestarter honey...just one big Zippo lighter

By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.