Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

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.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.