The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

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