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

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short before he... or she... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity