But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

New York is the only real city-city.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

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

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

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.