James Dean

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself.

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.