...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.

I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.