R.K. King Quotes

Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark. May I have the pleasure?

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

Art should be a place of hope.

I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

Even though me and Paul Ryan disagree on a whole lot of things, when he stood up and confronted those ugly words that [Donald] Trump said, I was proud of him.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

The turtle couldn't help us.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

Some things were better lost than found.

She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.