Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.