Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execu­tion in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.

Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!