Quotes About Challenge

once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain.

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

Can I? Yeah. You bet I can. There's a million things in this world can't do. Couldn't hit a curve ball, even back in high school. Can't fix a leaky faucet. Can't roller-skate or make an F-chord on the guitar that sounds like anything but shit. I have tried twice to be married and couldn't do it either time. But if you want me to take you away, to scare you or involve you or make you cry or grin, yeah. I can. I can bring it to you and keep bringing it until you holler uncle. I am able. I CAN.

What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

no knowledge obtained without risk

He thinks writing is also a kind of war, one you fight with yourself. The story is what you carry and every time you add to it, it gets heavier.

I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

When all the normal patterns and routines of a person's life fell apart—and with such shocking suddenness—you had to find something you could hold onto, something that was both sane and predictable.

If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind that the only way to make them into lemonade was to squeeze the hell out of them.

At first everything went according to plan and they called it ka. When things began going wrong and the dying started, they called that ka, too. Ka, the gunslinger could have told them, was often the last thing you had to rise above.

Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.

maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

Women buy stuff at sales for the same reason men climb mountains—because they're there.

The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.

before victory comes temptation. And the greater the victory to win, the greater the temptation to withstand.

I want to go to war, Eddie Dean said calmly. You don't know what you're talking about, Roland said, but you're going to find out. Eddie nodded. They went to their war.

When things go wrong, they keep going wrong until there's tears.

I've got icewater in my veins and I hope you freeze on the first bite. Come on, you busher! Batter-fucking-up!

One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon.