I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.

A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.

The wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.