“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

• Everything in the world is about sex except sex.  Sex is about power.
• The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
• I can resist everything except temptation.
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Stephen King, It