“Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.”

“Set backs are bumps in the road, they are not the end of the roads.”

“Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.”

“It’s not supposed to end this way. Whatever else Roland and his ka-tet knows, that’s one thing that they ken for sure. This business ain’t supposed to end, and end bloody, at the base of some godforsaken pile of rock called Jericho Hill. Because John Farson is evil, and they’re good, and good may have its setbacks and bumps along the road, but when the final bell gongs, only good is left to hear its peals. They know that. They just…they know it. This ain’t how it’s gonna end. ‘Cept, deep down…they know it is.”

“Just when you think you know where you are going, the road has a blind curve in it and you end up headed in a different direction.”

“The moment you begin to consider having more than someone else, you begin to fear you might end up with less than someone else.”