“Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.”

“Pride was the belt you could use to hold up your pants even after your pants were gone”

“But people love a hypocrite, you know——they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you.”

“He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.”

“And then the car was beside him, not idling but panting like a deadly animal which may or may not be tamed.”

“A time will come when it won’t pass.’The gunslinger made no reply, for he knew this was true. The trap had a ghastly perfection. If someone told you you’d go to hell if you thought about seeing your mother naked (once when the gunslinger was very young he had been told this very thing), you’d eventually do it. And why? Because you did not want to imagine your mother naked. Because you did not want to go to hell. Because, if given a knife and a hand in which to hold it, the mind would eventually eat itself. Not because it wanted to; because it did not want to.”

“A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.”