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.
Weitere Zitate von Stephen King
Zum Autor"Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest."
"His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere."
"Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics."
"I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... Set yourself on something... And then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?"
"Alone.Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
"When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow."