The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.