People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

He needs to be corrected, if you don't mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more. My own girls, sir, didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of my matches and tried to burn it down. I corrected them. I corrected them most harshly. And when my wife tried to stop me from doing my duty, I corrected her.

I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.