The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

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

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.

There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.