No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.