People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

Time heals all wounds.

I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.