I find at moments I’m as fragile as glass.
The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.
I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.
Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.
This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.
There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.
I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn’t work out.
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can’t say it enough.
Remember always, he said, that nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this-that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life.
We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?
Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King’s books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature – going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
It is tragic that many in America think of us – Christians – as being people who hate others.
What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.