Stephen King

"I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world."

"Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position."

"His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere."

"And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings."

"There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . And then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth."

"Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics."

"What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone."

"Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest."

"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."

"Why does she have to be such a...Such a...'Go on,' I said. 'The truth is never cussing, Son.'Such a bitch!"

"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."

"The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all."