You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.