There are a lot of reasons to doubt things.

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

I was a coward. I'm still such a coward.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.