“Ideas come from everything”

“I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”

“Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.”

“Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”

“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.”

“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”

“Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima”