Cold start is a hard start.

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.

I can see your dirtypillows.

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

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

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.