The money isn’t very important. The idea is to take care of your family and have enough left over to buy books and go to the movies once a week. As a goal in life, ‘getting rich’ strikes me as fairly ludicrous. The goal is to do what God made you for and not hurt anyone if you can help it.
~ Stephen King / NYT, August 13, 2000
“You keep picking a scab, you’re gonna make it bleed instead of heal.”
~ Stephen King / Guardian, September 07, 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/07/stephen-king-interview-the-institute
“God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to fuck up too often.”
~ Stephen King / Salem’s Lot