The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

What’s interesting about you is you.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.

Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

The most beautiful people are those who bring out the beauty in others.

Stand firm as surefooted as deer.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

Sometimes I do wake up in the mornings and feel like I've just had the most incredible dream. I've just dreamt my life

There's a feeling about it. You feel almost like a cabinetmaker, laying planks. There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.

In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels.

I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.