Quotes by Stephen King

“The reason French roads have trees planted down both sides is that the Germans like to march in the shade”

“John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying hes one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isnt it more like one in a trillion?”

“I can speak French but I cannot understand it.”

“Hell is a place where the motorists are French, the policemen are German, and the cooks are English”

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”

“There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.”

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

“Ive given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble. ~You Know Theyve Got A Hell Of A Band in Nightmares and Dreamscapes”

“He was a loser, you know. Every high school has to have at least two: its like a national law. One male, one female. Everyones dumping ground. ~Christine”

“Because as soon as you have a kid, you know for sure that youre going to die. ~Christine”

“It became their motto, and Jonesy couldnt for the life of him remember which of them started saying it first. Paybacks a bitch, that was his. ~ Dreamcatcher”

“I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids. ~Christine”

“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.”

“I dont take notes; I dont outline, I dont do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. Im a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You cant sell it as caviar.”

“I wasnt going to stand our here listening to those quarrelling voices in my head. If I wasnt crazy--and I didnt think I was--listening to those contentious assholes would probably send me there, and by the express.”

“Just ask. How young did you have to be, how beautifully ignorant, to issue that kind of blank check?”

“I felt rather like the little girl in Our Town who gave her address as Grovers Corner, New Hampshire, America, the Nothern Hemisphere, the World, the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy, the Mind of God.”

“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”

“Mr. Fitzgerald--I believe that is how he spells his name--seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.”

“Necking with Marilyn Monroe is like kissing Hitler”