Quotes from Stephen King, The Stand

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

There's always a choice. That's God's way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There's no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.

It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.

Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything?

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed

Help us to be true, Lord. Help us to stand.

Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.

Four young men in motorcycle jackets... set upon the man in khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board.

When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow.