I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.