Stephen King

When you bit the hand that fed you, you expected that extended hand to curl into a fist.

When you`ve been married a long time [...] a kind of telepathy sets in.

As soon as you have a kid, you know for sure that you`re going to die. When you have a kid, you see your own gravestone.

When you`re a grown-up, you take it for granted that things are going to change no matter how much you try to maintain the status quo [...]. It`s only when you`re a teenager that you talk about change constantly and believe in your heart that it never really happens.

When you know what a man needs, you know the man, more often than not.

Trying to help other people is never stupid.

Making a new friend is never a bad thing.

The end of a life is never pretty.

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don`t believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject.

There are lots of things in life that are like riding a bike, but writing short stories isn't one of them. You can forget how.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Weird love`s better than no love at all.

Friends don`t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

I believe that happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

Knowledge is always better - safer - in the long run than ignorance, no matter how dismayed one may feel when one first understands certain facts.