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.

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

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it's always nice to know where you're going is my theory.

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?