Quotes by Stephen King

“The sky of the color of ashes in the east and embers in the west.”

“I’m going crazy, Louis thought wonderingly. Wheeeeee!”

“She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again.”

“The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning.”

“What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.”

“There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”

“Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone.”

“Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.”

“Here is one of the great truths of the human condition: when you need Stayfree Maxi Pads to absorb the expectorants produced by your insulted body, you are in serious fucking trouble.”

“Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”

“I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?”

“All right. Here's the deal, bigshot: suck my cock. Do that and I'll let you go. Straight trade."He unzipped his fly and pulled down the elastic front of his shorts. Something that looked like a dea...”

“Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.”

“I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed.”

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”

“Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.”

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settle...”

“Not today. Instead of Wendy, I found myself thinking of Annie Ross and realizing I’d developed a small but powerful crush on her. The fact that nothing could come of it—she had to be ten years olde...”

“Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?”

“Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, but I’m ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm.“Sorry, clumsy,” she says.“You always were...”