Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
And the rest is rust and stardust.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.