[Comedian Colin Quinn said that having grown up in Cleveland, Ohio, King's subsequent prison term was] upward mobility. ... look like the three stages of a forest fire.


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Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
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The mighty Caliph of Khorasan. The King of Kings. Her beautiful monster.
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Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go...
STEPHEN KING
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take ...
STEPHEN KING
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must ...
STEPHEN KING
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...
STEPHEN KING
As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I...
A.S. KING
As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it arou...
A.S. KING
I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away ...
A.S. KING
you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
STEPHEN KING
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING
You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is col...
STEPHEN KING
Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.
STEPHEN KING
You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose t...
STEPHEN KING
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
STEPHEN KING
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KING
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
STEPHEN KING
Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
STEPHEN KING
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eightie...
FLORENCE KING
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING
Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.
STEPHEN KING
Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced...
FLORENCE KING
Please, we can get along here.
RODNEY KING
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For p...
FLORENCE KING
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING
Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
DOUG KING
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, ...
FLORENCE KING
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pa...
FLORENCE KING
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is...
STEPHEN KING
Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.
BASIL KING
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism wi...
FLORENCE KING
Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Person...
LARRY KING
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. F...
FLORENCE KING
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can ch...
STEPHEN KING
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
FLORENCE KING
His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible f...
STEPHEN KING
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value,...
FLORENCE KING
Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well ...
STEPHEN KING
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equalit...
FLORENCE KING
Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KING
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes t...
FLORENCE KING
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. W...
FLORENCE KING