"In 11/22/63 when Jake asks something like, 'Well, what happens if I end up killing my grandfather?' And there's a pause and Al replies: 'Well, why the fuck would you do that?'"

"If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (but neither of those two amateur-night surgeons was ever caught, …"

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."

"Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's."

"Some things are just bad. Some things are just evil. Sometimes there's no explanation."