“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”

“Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”

“You went away a little boy in a man's body and you came back the same way, except the man got his hair processed.”

“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”

“Life is more than love and pleasure,I came to dig for treasure.If you want to play, you gotta pay,You know it's always been that wayWe all came digging for treasure.”

“When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought "If THAT guy ever came back, he probably wouldn't be in a saving mood."”

“Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..”