Quotes by Stephen King

“The past is obdurate.”

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.”

“A man who lies about beer makes enemies”

“College was for people who didn’t know they were smart.”

“Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.”

“And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.”

“There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied b...”

“In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.”

“Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.”

“The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.”

“The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.”

“A left turn meant life - if you called what went on in the sunbaked exercise yard life, and many did; many lived it for years, with no apparent ill effects.”

“When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.”

“I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.”

“When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.”

“Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.”

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

“In the end, we wear out our worries.”

“I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?”

“Never give a good politician time to pray.”