Patricia Highsmith

“I have no idées noires. I don't feel that the world is a particularly dark place. I'm a pragmatist.”

“I often have the impression that I am the only one who is not crazy.”

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”

“Murder is a kind of making love, a kind of possessing.”

“I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.”

“To be a writer is a monstrously arrogant thing.”

“I can't write if someone is watching me.”

“One of my favorite pastimes is to annoy people.”

“My life is a screaming mess.”

“I'm not a bloody moralist. I'm a writer.”

“Crime is a logical extension of humanity's flaws.”

“The public wants to be reassured. They want to think that good triumphs over evil. My books don't do that.”

“I don't think I'm a very nice person. I mean, I love my friends and I'm kind to them, but I'm not a nice person.”

“There is no such thing as a happy marriage.”

“I find the whole business of love quite boring. It's an obsession.”