Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.