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.

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

Weird love's better than no love at all.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

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.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.