Skeleton Crew

by Stephen King

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair.

She looked like a sweaty orange baby.

My youth never flamed that much anyway.

I always had the idea that Ollie was a little afraid of girls.

Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn’t so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.

The mind is a monkey.

Old b-i-t-c-h, he thought. He spelled because he had decided last year God didn’t say it was a sin if you spelled.

But folks are still not done talking about Joe Camber, who got killed by his own dog.

He give me a hug around the neck with his forearm, which is all men can do since the world don’t let them kiss but only women, and laughed, and got up.

the Jaunt became the ultimate Jimmy Hoffa machine,

“Full of sand,” Shapiro whispered. “It’s got Beach Boys religion.”

and none of it would put a buzz under Gramma, because that was what being dead was about, nobody could put a buzz under a dead person,

Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell… if there is such a place. I tend to believe it’s here on earth, possibly in New Jersey.”

When does that irrational part actually stop fooling with the gun and put it up to its temple?”