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.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.