Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
Stephen KingCats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.
Stephen KingMost people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.
Stephen KingBy writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison. But below that, there's a part of us that responds to the Who bashing their instruments to pieces on the stage. There's a very primitive part that says, "Do it some more."
Stephen King