"When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs."

"One of the astounding qualities of that family was their capacity to fill innocent bystanders with thoughts of murder."

"Whenever I go to a botanical garden, I think of killing people with a spade."

"I cannot find in Chatterton's works any thing so extraordinary as the age at which they were written. They have a facility, vigour, and knowledge, which were prodigious in a boy of sixteen, but which …"

"One time, however, we were near quarrelling. He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees …"