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

I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.