Stephen King

"To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude."

"You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it is supposed to be funny... But it is also unknown, full of the unknown's eternal power."

"And so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure."

"Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you."

"The last good time always comes."

"Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up."

"The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing."

"But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty.' McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. 'It isn’t man or God. It’s something...In the brain."

"Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils."

"Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land."

"The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon."

"If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position."