You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.

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.

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.

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

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.