Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other cre... - Stephen King

"It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep."

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."

"Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze."

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."

"I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something"