I drink a lot of beer, and that's the drug of choice. You find the drug that works for you. I know, for instance, this guy named Harlan Ellison - and he's not alone - who's very proud of the fact that he doesn't put dope into his body. He tries not to put additives into his body, or anything like that. But he can afford to do that because Harlan's drug of choice is Harlan.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.