3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Cats are the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.

There is nothing of God or Light in that heartless sound - it is all black winter and dark ice.

Any battle-seasoned general will tell you that, even in a small-scale engagement (as this one was), there always comes a point where coherence breaks down, and the narrative flow, and any real sense of how things are going. These matters are re-created by historians later on. The need to re-create the myth of coherence may be one of the reasons why history exists in the first place.

To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist.

And that almost killed you?""It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.

Something in the fog!" he screamed, and Billy shrank against me-whether because of the man's bloody nose or what he was saying, I don't know. "Something in the fog took John Lee! Something-" He staggered back against a display of lawn food stacked by the window and sat down there."Something in the fog took John Lee and I heard him screaming!