“Fears locked in small brains are much too large to pass through the orifice of the mouth.”

“By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.”

“They lived in fearful perplexity and passed it off as imagination”

“As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.”

“The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"Yes."My Imagination."I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself."Then you have a small imagination."Roland and Eddie”

“The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.”

“Far away, through the gash that led the way into the mountains, he heard the thick mouth of the perpetual thunder.”