All Quotes

"Mmm, I'm a little bit lonely these days"

"Never in my wildest imagination did I ever dream I would have sons like these."

"Kids don't like it when their parents get divorced."

"[Describing Max to the police] 112 pounds. Black hair. Glasses... Oval face."

"She's sweet, but she's fucked up."

"Did Max have something planned for us today? A trip to a museum or something?"

"Oh yeah and with friends like you who needs friends?"

"[On a walkie-talkie] There's action across the street. [static] It's Snowman! Take him!"

"[to Max] I just wanted to say, I'm sorry I threw rocks at you that day."

"...I knew for sure when they went skinny-dipping in Mr. Blume's pool while giving eachother handjobs..."

"You're a married man, Blume."

"I'm not even here right now, I'm in Cheyenne Wyoming."

"Magnus Buchan: I always wanted to be in one of your fuckin' plays."

"You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and you replace it with rational thought. But there is no love in thought, nothing that lasts in deduction, only death in rationalism."

"I refuse to believe that I was raised in Brooklyn simply because of some writer's mistake, something that will eventually be fixed in the second draft."

"I don't think he needs to be immortal. I think all he needs to do is to write the right story. Because some stories do live forever."

""May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!" The teeth of his old enemies, these ancient brothers and sisters of a thing which had called itself Kurt Barlow, sank into him like stingers. Callahan felt them not at all. He was smiling as he pulled the trigger and escaped them for good."

"You must never draw until you know how many are against you, or you've satisfied yourself that you can never know, or you've decided it's your day to die."

""There'll be guards", Eddie said. "Maybe a lot of them. What if we're outnumbered?" "It won't be the first time", Roland said."

"The bumbler did not bite, but said a single word. "Olan," said he. Then he lowered his head, uttered a single sigh, and died."

"So much you did; So much you did and so much more you would have done, aye, and all without a check or qualm, and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure."

"Gunfire makes close relations."

"Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die."

"Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie."

"Even if the torture stops, I'll die. And you'll die too, for when love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask."

"All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one."

"They were the hands of Gan, the hands of ka, and they knew no mercy"

"You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you."

"“A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.""

"“In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.”"

"“It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.”"

"“What if I fall?', Tim cried."

"“There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.”"

"Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it."

"I'm never done with The Dark Tower. The thing about The Dark Tower is that those books were never edited, so I look at them as first drafts. And by the time I got to the fifth or sixth book, I'm thinking to myself, "This is really all one novel." It drives me crazy. The thing is to try to find the time to rewrite them. There's a missing element – a big battle at a place called Jericho Hill. And that whole thing should be written, and I've thought about it several times, and I don't know how to get into it."

"Be Nice. Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it. I admit it's not easy when you've got a gripe. To be agreeable while disagreeing — that's an art. Be natural — write the way you talk."

"Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time."

"It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth."

"Revenge is a dish best served cold."

"There's no access for you in this quadrant."

"Only a fool fights in a burning house."

"A fool and his head are soon parted."

"The wind does not respect a fool."

"[on stage making a fool of himself] Voting kicks ass right! Cause, uh, if voting kicks ass, and Al Donnelly kicks ass, and you put them both together and you got yourself some kick ass shit!"

"A leader is judged not by the length of his reign but by the decisions he makes."

"Great men do not seek power; it is thrust upon them."

"If you cannot control yourself, you cannot command others"

"Death is an experience best shared."

"Pity the warrior who slays all his foes."

"A sharp knife is nothing without a sharp eye."