A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed in all that light, that civilized light.

Only through fiction can we think about the unthinkable...

Fiction is the truth inside a lie.

There was nothing … and nothing … and then the car bumped up again. There was a muffled pop, the sound of a small pumpkin exploding in a microwave oven.Morris cut the wheel to the left and there was another bump as the Biscayne went back into the parking area. He looked in the mirror and saw that Curtis’s head was gone.

Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.

...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.