the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

He sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.