I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.