“We had once again succeeded indestroying what we could not create.”

“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”

“He fell silent. For several moments they all did, and the quiet had the feel of a deliberate thing. Then Eddie said, "All right, we're back together again. What the hell do we do next?”

“What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...”

“Jamie DeCurry had once proclaimed that Roland could shoot blindfolded, because he had eyes in his fingers.”

“Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.”

“The ladder had always held us before, we thought it would always hold us again, which is a philosophy that gets men and nations in trouble time after time.”