All Thing Serve the Beam

It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?