The Stand

by Stephen King

Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world’s vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it’s all on purpose.

A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable. No

Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn’t grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

“The Lord is my shepherd,” he recited softly. “I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen.”