So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

That's the way girls were--they always laughed. Because they were bitches.

Horror is the removal of masks.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.