That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment

In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days ? Franz Kafka.

What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?

Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.