Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

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

But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.

The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.

Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty dollars.

...he called after her as shedisappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...

Morality negates life.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

I'm fortunate to be able to draw in different styles, but each style demands another approach from the previous.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.

Ideas are useless unless used.