I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having concerned myself with such people, because I think that most of us are disturbed.

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.