Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.

If you want to play, you gotta pay.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.