Stephen King vs. George W. Bush

"Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and …"

"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mun…"

"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to…"

"For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they und…"

"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."

"Alice had managed to get herself back under some sort of control, but it was thin. Thin enough to read a newspaper through, his bingo-playing mother might ha…"

"A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men."

"When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."

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

"Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark."

"A stupid man is more prone to cabin fever just as he's more prone to shoot someone over a card game or commit a spur-of-the-moment robbery. He gets bored. Wh…"

"Go down, Jack. Get them and I'll take the cancer away. Oh, but right now he had more immediate concerns, didn't he? He was swelling up like a waterlogged spo…"

"The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single face... and if bait were needed, w…"

"I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way …"

"She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time."

"When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a…"

"You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and…"

"You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all."

"Don't forget that you're a mental being, with a humongous trillion gigawatt hard-drive at your disposal. Most of you have been running it like crazy for four…"

"Worlds sometimes shudder and turn inside their axes, and this was such a time. Flagg felt it, but did not grasp it. The salvation of all that is good is only…"