When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

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

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

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

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.