Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

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.

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.