86 Quotes by Richard Bachman

The reason all of this is so horrible,” McVries said, “is because it’s just trivial. You know? We’ve sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities.

Garraty watched apathetically and thought, even the horror wears thin. There’s a surfeit even of death.

If people just took it a day at a time, they’d be a lot happier.

He swallowed, aware that his mind was broadcasting echoes of itself, helpless to stop, hypnotized by the grinding, Cyclopean eye of posterity.

The sea at the horizon was yet unchanged. It glittered blue and ageless, full of dancing points and nets of light in the late afternoon sun.

They’re animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.

Being someone’s responsibility makes them hate you.

A mule doesn’t like to plow. But he likes carrots. So you hang a carrot in front of his eyes. A mule without a carrot gets exhausted. A mule with a carrot spends a long time being tired.