I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.

The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM