Character: Jack TORRANCE

He is still an alcoholic and will always. Maybe he became an alcoholic at the time when the Institute's party of sophomores first drink. This had nothing to do with will power, the morality of drinking, to the weakness or force of his own character. Somewhere inside was a broken relay or switch that did not work, so Willy-nilly Jack pushed down under the hill - slowly at first, then <...> faster.

To make a living brains - means always knowing where the wasps.

- Don't be afraid, my lad, ' said Ullman. - Safe, as in Christ's bosom.
- About the "Titanic" say so too, - said Jack.