I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

All artists are two-headed calves.

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.