You Like It Darker

by Stephen King

claimed he’d said all he had to say, including some things he probably should have kept to himself. “You give enough interviews,” he told me once, “and you are bound to stick your foot in your mouth a time or two. Those are the quotes that last, and the older you are, the more likely it becomes.”

Ok, we get it, Steve

I daydreamed of critics saying, “The depth of Mark Carmody’s novel makes his father’s work look shabby. The pupil has truly outshone the teacher.” I don’t want to feel that way, and mostly I don’t, yet part of me does and always will. That part of me is a cave-dweller who grins a lot but never smiles.

This passage is a wonderfully illustrative way to describe natural envy.

“Daniel Coughlin? I’m Inspector Franklin Jalbert,

"and IIII'm Javert!"

“All right. When we get to the main road, we can decide whether to keep going to Derry or just head home.”

Ha, always head home when Derry is the alternative