The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother

I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

..."Good, because I need your help." "Help is my middle name." I was pretty sure she'd already told me bad was her middle name, but I kept my opinion to myself.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

Children do run from me. And so do some adults.

You can't love your team without hating another team.

I know guys. I know the way they think.

We need to build up society in the light of the Beatitudes, walking towards the Kingdom with the least among us.

That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.