“First comes smiles, then comes lies. Last is gunfire.”

“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead”

“Head clear. Mouth shut. See much. Say little.”

“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. ”

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”

“The Tower. He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names; there he would sing all their names. The sun stained the east a dusky rose, and at last Roland, no longer the last gunslinger but one of the last three, slept and dreamed his angry dreams through which there ran only that one soothing blue thread: There I will sing all their names!”

“As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.”