When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.

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

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.

Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.