That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

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

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

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

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.