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Mothers were naturals for law enforcement, because toddlers, like criminals, were often belligerent and destructive.

I'm going crazy, Louis thought wonderingly. Wheeeeee!

The truth is that most writers are needy.

A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.

After all, there are other worlds than these and that fuckin train rolls through all of them.

That life was richer,' a voice deep in his mind whispered. 'This one is truer,' whispered another, even deeper.

You got style, you got class, you got the lips to kiss my ass.

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.

Is so-and-so a bigger asshole than Truman?" Few could compare—in fact, so far, officially, there was only Donald Trump and cannibals.

and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

But it was a dreadful kind of curiosity, the kind that makes you peek through your fingers during the scariest parts of a scary movie.

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

Him's name is Roland, Mama. I dream about him, sometimes. Him's a King, too.

We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts.

If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable, I'm going to kill myself, because I won't know what else to do. You see, politics always change. Stories never do.

Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.

Membacalah empat jam sehari dan menulislah empat jam sehari. Kalau kau tidak bisa meluangkan waktu untuk itu, jangan harap kau bisa menjadi penulis yang baik.

Once you eliminate the natural, whatever remains must be supernatural?

The lawn of Placerville High School is a very good one. It does not fuck around.

I felt comfortable as only one can on such a night, when all is miserable outside and all is warmth and comfort inside.

At Hartford or New Haven or one of those other places where no one in their right fucking mind would want to live.

Hey, Trash, what did old lady Semple say when you torched her pension check?

And that almost killed you? It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.