would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

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.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

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

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.