Books are a uniquely portable magic.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

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.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.

The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.