No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do... and I thought, suppose a guy was washed up on a rocky island, how much of himself could he eat?

You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It’s only kids in high school who are convinced they’re never going to change. There’s always going to be a pep rally and there’s always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood.

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.