She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells.

What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.