Joyland Quotes

#1. Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

Paul Di Filippo

#2. Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

Francis Bacon

#3. You're no angel. You're Fallen. You just haven't had the decency to lose your wings. [Reaver]

Larissa Ione

#4. This race is not for the swift, but for the smart, for the one who knows himself as the winner

Burning Spear

#5. His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.

Stephen King

#6. My
gad," one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; "if
you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?

William Faulkner

#7. The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

Rick Renzi

#8. We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.

Stephen King

#9. A statue is just a statue until someone comes along and says it is beautiful. Then it starts to enjoy the magnificence of life.

Debasish Mridha

#10. The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

Joel Bakan