Quotes from Stephen King

Age looked at youth, and youth's applause first weakened, then died.

And do come a little closer. I don't bite. Except . . . we've known each other for a very long time, and I suspect you know that's not entirely true. Is it? I

The soul of a man such as you can never leave the west.

even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass.

Creemos que sabemos mucho, pero en realidad no sabemos más que una rata en una trampa, una rata con la espalda rota que aún cree que quiere vivir.

It was a moment he remembered for years after, as though a special small slice had been cut from the cake of time. If nothing fires between two people, such an instant simply falls back into the general wrack of memory.

Love is the enemy. Yes...the poets continually and sometimes willfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a cannibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile; it is always hungry.

I wanted to leave. Every day the sun would set a little earlier, and every day I'd feel the call of those roads, those highways in hiding, a little more strongly. Some of it might have been the fabled geographic cure, to which I believe I have already alluded. It's a wholly illogical but nonetheless powerful belief that things will change for the better in a new place; that the urge to self-destruct will magically disappear.

Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.

Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.

men were not so much gifted with penises as cursed with them.

Maybe that's one of the ways you recognize really lonely people . . . they can always think of something neat to do on rainy days. You can always call them up. They're always home. Fucking always. For

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.

C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.

She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.

He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

People who shine can sometimes see things that are gonna happen, and I think sometimes they can see things that did happen. But they're just like pictures in a book.

We all die in time," the gunslinger said. "It's not just the world that moves on.

Easy reading is the product of hard writing

I loved you, Jake.

Are you still forgetting things? I don't know, I can't remember, I said.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

All Frank knew was that the ones you really had to watch out for in this world were the ones that couldn't love even a cat or a dog.

There's precious little reform in the human race.