In about five billion years, the sun will exhaust its supply of hydrogen and evolve into a red giant, becoming hugely bigger than it is now.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.

It has been rumored that “Psycho” is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal.

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

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.

I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn’t have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock.