And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The Other and The Omen. People would say, "What this really means is that Americans don't want to have kids anymore. They feel hostility towards their own children. They feel they're being tied down and dragged down." In fact, in most cases, what those books are about is nice children who are beset by forces beyond their control.

The most important things are the hardest to say

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.