Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time, there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, well, if this is God's plan, it's very peculiar. And you have to wonder about that guy's personality, the big guy's personality.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.