He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one

If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow

My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill.

At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.