Stephen King

To the champ, everything is serious business. I’m hoping that he’ll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation

when the technologies fail, when the conventional religious systems fail, people have got to have something. Even a zombie lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assault of a million fluorocarbon spray cans of deodorant

lived together for fourteen months, all of it fine until the last six weeks or so, when Yvonne got to be kind of a bitch

It had seemed slow subjectively, inside his head, but it must have all happened in less than a minute. It only seemed slow the way some dreams seem slow. The bad ones.

When you unwittingly stuck your hand into the wasps' nest, you hadn't made a covenant with the devil to give up your civilized self with its trappings of love and respect and honor. It just happened to you. Passively, with no say, you ceased to be a creature of the mind and became a creature of the nerve endings

flattery is the stuff that greases the wheels of the world.”

aversion to being stung

He and George and Frieda had less than two hours to live

Change will come upon them sudden and unannounced, as it always does with children