When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

All literature is gossip.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.