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

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execu­tion in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.