I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.