The choice, as Eddie saw it, was as simple as it was brutal: get moving and keep moving or stand in one place long enough to start thinking about what all of this meant and simply die of fright.

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

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother

The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...

You can’t be a big dreamer if you don’t where you are going. You can’t know where you are going unless you first know where you are.

...love's shadow is jealousy.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

A good indication that it's not is if you're only staying with What's His Name because you're scared.

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

My marriage has worked because I am not around much.

Strike, if you will, but listen.