I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We don't say a man's ill if he's crazy about sex, if he can't get enough sex. Why should a woman be different?

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

Nobody really lives in the present.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

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.

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