We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. . . All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.
All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.
I have won every argument I ever had with myself.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels.
I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.