Stephen King Quotes (302 Quotes)

Can I? Yeah. You bet I can. There's a million things in this world can't do. Couldn't hit a curve ball, even back in high school. Can't fix a leaky faucet. Can't roller-skate or make an F-chord on the guitar that sounds like anything but shit. I have tried twice to be married and couldn't do it either time. But if you want me to take you away, to scare you or involve you or make you cry or grin, yeah. I can. I can bring it to you and keep bringing it until you holler uncle. I am able. I CAN.

But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.

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.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.

I'm going to put them in the slam, my friend, and if I hear they got their puckery little assholes cored down there in Thomaston, I'm gonna send them cards saying I hope whoever did it had AIDS.

I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.

Corey Bryant sank into a great forgetful river, and that river was time, and its waters were red.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.

Allie sighed. It was an old, yellow sound, like turning pages.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing inbetween

A person can't change all at once.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god Why me' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

I don't do this type of appearance very often. But this was something different.

Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And a good thing never really dies.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

One of the problems here both for France and for Germany, is that they are both quite dependant on exports as a source of growth.

No good friends, no bad friends only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart

The CD, on which Arroyo covers 12 rock tunes including Pearl Jam's Black and Stone Temple Pilots' Plush with guest guitarist Red Sox G.M. Theo Epstein and guest vocalist ... respect for the audience's ears.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.

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

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library

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

Whenever you meet a man like that, my best advice to you would be to grin big and cover up your balls with both hands.

Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.

Capital has mobility in Europe. German companies are able to tell workers that they can either accept reduced pay, or see the company close factories and reopen new ones in Poland or India.

The U.S. economy is continuing to weaken, ... We are bearish over the next few months. The beige book continues to show weakness in the U.S.

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