Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy.""Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

We often end our journeys without beginning them. We learn about the world without knowing ourselves.

A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair and takes it away from you when it rains.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our planet's water cycle and in return affects us.

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels.