The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.