3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Just don't expect to get what you want unless we decide its what you need - this isn't a hotel.

Just don't expect to get what you want unless we decide its what you need - this isn't a hotel.. This is a quiet place.. You won't work; mostly you'll just sit. Give you a chance to think things over.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

A change is as good as a rest.

FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.