Stephen King, The Gunslinger Quotes

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

Time's the thief of memory

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed

...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed in all that light, that civilized light.

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

The trap had a ghastly perfection

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard

I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way.

Allie sighed. It was an old yellow sound, like turning pages.