I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It’s only kids in high school who are convinced they’re never going to change. There’s always going to be a pep rally and there’s always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.