There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

Laws by definition do not change

One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll hate you.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.