Stephen King, Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

"Black as night and as beautiful as forever."

"Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka."

"If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself… and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning."

"In a marriage, words are like rain. And the land of a marriage is filled with dry washes and arroyos that can become raging rivers in almost the wink of an eye. The therapists believe in talk, but most of them are either divorced or queer. It's silence that is a marriage's best friend."

"But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?"

"...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written."