The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

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

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

If you were a real fascistic society and you had a vocal minority that was shouting, "Stop this, stop that, stop the other thing," what you would say is, "Let's give them all the drugs they want." In a lot of states, something very much like that happened. They lowered the drinking age to eighteen and said, "Get juiced."