Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.