Eight Perfect Murders

No one knows what’s going on in another person’s mind, or in their heart.”

when you can’t figure something out in the plot of your book, go to bed, and let your subconscious pick at it.

, no. It’s my fucking mess and I need to fix it myself.

“If I had reasons to love you, then there’d be reasons for me to not love you.”

I do not have a critical mind for poems, but I react to them.

But books don’t just take you back to the time in which they were written; they can take you back to different versions of yourself.

Books are time travel. True readers all know this.

Strangers on a Train (1950)

“Any time you try a decent crime, you got fifty ways you’re gonna fuck up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you’re a genius . . . and you ain’t no genius.”