Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up.

Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. “You came!” Jake shouted. “You really came!” “I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came.

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

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.