One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there.