That's not writing, that's typing

I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

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

Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.