A.S. King Quotes

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?

The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry.

Our only hope lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism

I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.

Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaughterhouse.

She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not right.

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

Tony, Tony, come around, something's lost that can't be found.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.

A man who lies about beer makes enemies

College was for people who didn’t know they were smart.

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.

When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.

I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.

When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.

If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.

In the end, we wear out our worries.

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

Don't hate it's too big a burden to bear.

Without love benevolence becomes egotism.

I want to be the white man's brother not his brother-in-law.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami but salami is salami.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.

If we could make it work will you give us a chance?

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.