Am I weird?"" Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

— Stephen King

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

— Stephen King

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

— Stephen King

And as I thought about the body of Ray Broker in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear before us, a green and gibbering banshee whose purpose was to drive us back the way we had come before we could disturb his- its- peace, but a sudden and unexpected wash of pity that he should be so alone and so defenceless in the dark that was now coming over our side of the world.

— Stephen King

And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemn thoughtful.

— Stephen King

And now, all these years later, it seems to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

— Stephen King

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

— Stephen King

And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.

— Stephen King