Ever since I read Stephen King's "The Gunslinger" in one sitting, I've been a huge fangirl, of both his books, and his interviews. He's a great read in either sector, and Salon.com recently posted a fab interview with him on "The Stand" and our new apocalyptic-like current crisis. Some of the best lines from the article?
On America:
"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."
On the afterlife:
"Think of it this way. I think of the brain as this great, big, crenelated library with many rooms, billions and billions of books, rooms without number, but at the very end of all those rooms, there's a little tiny box that says "pull lever in case of emergency," because that's the door out, and when you go out, you get pretty much what you expected, because some chemical in your brain is programmed to give you that particular dream at the very end. If you're expecting [H.P. Lovecraft's] Yogg Sothoth, there he'll be, along with the 900 blind fiddlers, or whatever it is."
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