I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.

What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.