Quotes from Richard Bachman

In the long run Gary will almost certainly talk, but Johnny Marinville has never been less concerned with the long run in his whole life.

It's easy to blame, easy to want revenge. But when you look at things closely, you start to see that every event is locked onto every other event; that sometimes things happen just because they happen. None of us like to think that's so, because then we can never strike out at someone to ease the pain; we have to find another way, and none of the other ways are so simple, or so satisfying.

Sure they're animals. You think you just found out a new principle? Sometimes I wonder just how naive you really are. The French lords and ladies used to screw after the guillotinings. The old Romans used to stuff each other during the gladiatorial matches. That's entertainment, Garraty. It's nothing new.

Che effetto prova un suicida quando piomba giù da un cornicione? Sono sicuro che la sensazione sia del tutto sana. Probabilmente è per quello che urlano durante tutto il volo.

Death is great for the appetites. How about those two girls and Gribble? They wanted to see what screwing a dead man felt like. Now for Something Completely New and Different. I don't know if Gribble got much out of it, but they sure as shit did. It's the same with anybody. It doesn't matter if they're eating or drinking or sitting on their cans. They like it better, they feel it and taste it better because they're watching dead men.

They were the walking dead.

If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to.

A man gets older, that's the thing. You don't know nothin about that, but you will. He gets older and his whole life starts to seem like a dream he had durin an afternoon nap.

It seemed to him that the sound of his footfalls had become as loud to his ears as the sound of his own heartbeat. Vital, life and death sound.

That's the end. I have to turn off the light now. Good night.

He ran a hand up his side and played the xylophone on his ribs.

The color on the new Zenith was more than good; it was nearly occult.

The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things . . . of sailing ships and sealing-wax, And whether pigs have wings.

The reason all of this is so horrible," McVries said, "is because it's just trivial.

He was magnificent and trivial.

Blaze was stumped for a moment. Then he blurted, "George." "Lovely name! From the Greek. It means, 'to work the earth.'

Some guys—a lot of guys—don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or think or believe.

in this day of limited legalized murder, germ warfare in Egypt and South America, and the notorious have-one-kill-one Nevada abortion law.

And how much was in this fabled wallet?" "About two hundred and fifty dollars." "Baldheaded Jaysus, and I bet you got it all in your pockets, too.

This girl's a prisoner of her time and her age, the same as anyone else, which means that all of this is perfectly serious to her.

Summer yes, but not just summer; we are talking July 15th, the very rooftree of summer

In poker the highest hand is a royal straight-flush in spades.

It took me a while to figure it out, but it was faster after I got around that mental block. Walk or die, that's the moral of this story. Simple as that. It's not survival of the physically fittest, that's where I went wrong when I let myself get into this. If it was, I'd have a fair chance. But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty. It isn't man or God. It's something... in the brain.

It was always more frightening when the purported spy was a suburban WASP, one of us. KGB agents in Willamette or Des Moines