I remember things the way they should have been.

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.

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

Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.

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.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

I can see every monster as they come in.