I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace.

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.

The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.