I hadn't aimed at anything. If I had thought of the bullet's hitting anything, I don't remember now. I was the great marksman, anyway. If I aimed at nothing, then nothing is what I would hit. The bullet was a symbol, and nobody was ever hurt by a symbol. It was a farewell to my childhood and a confirmation of my manhood. Why didn't I use a blank cartridge? What kind of a symbol would that have been?

Many people found our house spooky, and the attic in fact as full of evil when I was born. It housed a collection of more than three hundred antique and modern…

My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human…

This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn't work that way. So I just stole one and as…

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

A dark unfathom'd tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem.