Stephen King Quotes

The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi.

André Linoge: Born in lust, turn to dust. Born in sin, come on in!

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

“It’s gonna be all right,” he told her, and rocked her, not really believing it, but it was the litany, it was the Psalter, the voice of the adult calling down the black well of years into the miserable pit of terrorized childhood; it was what you said when things went wrong; it was the nightlight that could not banish the monster from the closet but perhaps only keep it at bay for a little while; it was the voice without power that must speak nevertheless. “It’s gonna be all right,” he told her, not really believing it, knowing as every adult knows in his secret heart that nothing is really all right, ever.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

"We'll find him," Stackhouse said. Because if we don't, he thought, I'm toast. This whole place might be toast.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

SSDD Same Shit Different Day

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.

The elevator doors slid shut behind him; there was a hum as it began to go up automatically. It wouldn't come down again unless somebody else keyed it, Starkey knew; as soon as the installation's integrity had been breached, the computers had switched all the elevators to the general containment program. Why were these poor men and women lying here? Obviously they had been hoping the computers would fuck up the switch-over to the emergency procedures. Why not? It even had a certain logic to it. Everything else had fucked up.

On a couple of occasions I've shocked myself. Pet Sematary was appalling when it first came out on to the page.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.