I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.