‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

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

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.

Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.

...it was more like bleeding than crying.