Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees.

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.