Quotes from Stephen King

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.

But storytelling always changes time. At least it does in my world.

That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

The most important things are the hardest things to say

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

People have many ways to be lousy to one another, as you'll find out when you're older, but I think that all bad behavior stems from plain old selfishness.

Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every song sounds like it's about fucking.

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know—by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.

As soon as you have a child, you see your own tombstone

The wheels of progress; sooner or later they took you back to where you started from.

It was not just Danny the Overlook was working on. It was working on him, too. It wasn't Danny who was the weak link, it was him. He was the vulnerable one, the one who could be bent and twisted until something snapped.

Smart people know a lot, and maybe that makes them think they know everything.

There are also books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. 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 a good story and good words, treasure that book.

But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn't always have a lot to do with objective truth.

But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don't hear nothing else: everything I did, I did for love . . . the love a natural mother feels for her children. That's the strongest love there is in the world, and it's the deadliest. There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

Dying was a part of living. You had to keep tuning in to that if you expected to be a whole person. And if the fact of your own death was hard to understand, at least it wasn't impossible to accept.

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

The town cares for devil's work no more than it cares for God's or man's. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough.

Whoever said misery loves company was full of shite. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong , however... that guy was onto something.

They lived in fearful perplexity and passed it off as imagination

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

Question: Death, where is thy sting? Answer: Every-fucking-where.