The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Quotes

Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity.

They were close to the end of the beginning.

“Time’s the thief of memory.”

Where the world ends is where you must begin.

“The man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”

Long days and pleasant nights.

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland.

I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye.

“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size.”

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.

I don’t like people.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”

You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe.

Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box and cover it with wet weeds to die?

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

“Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?”

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind.