Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.