Stephen King Quotes

I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.

When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.

Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

I'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

No member of any society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

… she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

I'm not scary. It's scary for people to see someone being nonconformist.