R.K. King Quotes

Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.

Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. “You came!” Jake shouted. “You really came!” “I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came.

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.

Do I know what people say? Sure. I shrug it off. what else can you do? Stop people from talking? You might as well try to stop the wind from blowing.

Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

Life turns on a dime.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka.

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

Ka works and the world moves on.

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.

Time is a face on the water.

There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

True love always happens in a flash.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands.