3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

He’s my cat! He’s not God’s cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

A person can't change all at once.

She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.

I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way.

I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please God you have one). This isn't a popularity contest, it's not the moral Olympics, and it's not church. But it's Writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just play-ground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.