3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Nevertheless, he was already a sick man. He had gotten more than gas at Bill Hapscomb's Texaco. And he gave Harry Trent more than a speeding summons.

He looked at the road white a lot now. Sometimes the white line was solid, sometimes it was broken, and sometimes it was double like streetcar tracks. He wondered how people could ride over this road all the other days of the year and not see the pattern of life and death in that white paint. Or did they see, after all?

If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them."[Bangor Daily News, Guest Column of March 20, 1992]

They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt.

Nunca sabemos en que vidas influenciamos, ni cuando, ni por que. No lo descubrimos hasta que el futuro devora el presente. Hasta que es demasiado tarde.

La realidad es un misterio, doctor Bonsaint, y la textura corriente de las cosas es la tela que usamos para ocultar su resplandor y oscuridad. Pienso que cubrimos los rostros de los cadáveres por la misma razón. Vemos las caras de los muertos como una especie de puerta. Está cerrada para nosotros… pero sabemos que no lo estará siempre. Algún día se abrirá para cada uno de nosotros y la atravesaremos.

La gente puede romper promesas y la gente puede quebrarse. Especialmente aquellos que han estado sometidos a mucha presión y son mentalmente inestables.

Las lecciones que se recuerdan por más tiempo […] son siempre las que uno aprende por sí mismo.

Álzate, y sé certero.