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.

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.