It was things like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he thought, that made you believe the world was maybe just as well off destroyed. The Stand (1978)
Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again. The Stand (1978)
Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire. The Stand (1978)
Afterward Larry felt as if he had been through a long pillow-fight in which all the pillows had been treated with a low-grade poison gas. The Stand (1978)
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? The Stand (1978)