Quotes by Stephen King

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

You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but its the only kind I have to give. I think were going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but Ill almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. Ive got the money coming, but as for the rest Ive got just enough for you, and I wont ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.

The world has given me a good life since then, I wont deny it, but sometimes I hate the world, anyway. Dick Cheney, that apologist for water boarding and for too long chief preacher in the Holy Church of Whatever it Takes, got a brand-new heart while I was writing this - how about that? He lives on; other people have died.

The silence wasnt uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldnt believe but because they wouldnt care.

Maybe theres a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.

What are you?Im the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please dont blame me for it; I had a bellyache.

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we dont.

...there are worse things than losing the girl.

Im not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.

Im not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we dont life or approve of.

...most of what bein humans about is making choices and payin the bills when they come due. Some of the choices are pretty goddam nasty, but that dont give a person leave to just walk away from em... In a case like that, you just have to make the best choice you can n then pay the price.

The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum them and you make a pleasing sound. A harmonic.

But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by feelings of love and responsibility. Every possible choice seemed to have drawbacks, and sometimes he didnt understand why the drawbacks were drawbacks. It was very hard.

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.