They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.

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...

Music really is our daily medicine.

I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we first got here. And I'm hopeful we'll build on the progress we've made in the years to come.

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.

I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.

If you learn to enjoy waiting, you don't have to wait to enjoy.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.