I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite? - Stephen King

America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we've all heard plenty of both in our time.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Now let many long years pass, all in a twinkling — one of the great things about tales is how fast time may pass when not much of note is happening. Real life is never that way, and it is probably a good thing. Time only passes faster in histories, and what is a history except a grand sort of tale where passing centuries are substituted for passing years?