Quote of the Day (Stephen King, on ‘The Evil That Men Do’)

“I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.”—American horror-fiction writer Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot (1975)

Evil can live on in politics, as well as among the undead.

Quote of the Day (Stephen King, on ‘The Best Men’ in 2025)

“In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives.”—American novelist Stephen King (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman), The Running Man (1982)

Quote of the Day (Stephen King, on Horror Tales and Morality)

“Within the framework of most horror tales we find a moral code so strong it would make a Puritan smile.” —Novelist Stephen King, Danse Macabre (1981)

Quote of the Day (Stephen King, on Description)

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” —Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)

TV Exchange of the Day (“Friends,” Comparing “Little Women” and “The Shining”)

Joey (played by Matt LeBlanc): “Is that true? If I keep reading is Beth gonna die?”

Chandler (played by Matthew Perry): “No, Beth doesn't die. She doesn't die. Does she, Rachel?”

Rachel (played by Jennifer Aniston): “What?”

Ross (played by David Schwimmer): “Joey's asking if you've just ruined the first book he's ever loved that didn't star Jack Nicholson?”—Friends, “The One Where Monica and Richard Are Just Friends,” Season 3, Episode 13, teleplay by Michael Borkow, directed by Robby Benson, original air date Jan. 30, 1997