Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.

You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.