Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

'The reason all of this is so horrible,' McVries said, 'is because it's just trivial. You know? We've sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities. Olso…

He felt as if Stillson might have taken the game of the Laughing Tiger a step further: inside the beast-skin, a man, yes. But inside the man-skin, a beast.

Daylight came creeping through a white, muted world of fog. Garraty was walking by himself again. He no longer even knew how many had bought it in the night. F…

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.