3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them

That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.

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Sleep is often denied to those with secrets.

I'll see you.'He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

In his memory there was a great tendency to downplay or completely forget their unlovable characteristics. [...] The thoughts that came wanted to be wholly good.

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.