Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.

What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?

the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.