Quotes from Ira Levin

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

It is a paradox that the more egalitarian society becomes, the more important an individual's genes will be. Where opportunity is completely open – should a child's background ever become entirely irrelevant in their attainment – innate advantages will still create division.

The egocentricity which motivated it was not that of the spoiled, but of the too little spoiled; the lonely. Had she been an artist she would have painted a self-portrait; instead she decorated two rooms, charging them with objects which some visitor, some day, would recognize and understand. And through that understanding he would divine all the capacities and longings she had found in herself and was unable to communicate.

They gave Mrs. Cortez a check for five hundred and eighty-three dollars—a month's rent in advance and a month's rent as security—

I'd like to have a spice garden some day," Rosemary said. "Out of the city, of course. If Guy ever gets a movie offer we're going to grab it and go live in Los Angeles. I'm a country girl at heart.

Padded Wagon. The painters came on Wednesday the

there are now only two people on earth who know who he is." He swung a finger back and forth between them. "Us." He squeezed her hands, held her eyes with his. "That's why it's such—joy for me to be with you again. Not just because you're my mother. Because you know who I am, because I don't have to hide the truth from you! And don't you feel something like that toward me? How

Todo aquel que necesita más de una maleta —dijo mientras cerraba con dos vueltas de llave la puerta de su apartamento— es un turista, no un viajero.

Joanna's period was late but came, thank God and the Pill.

Some day, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who LOOKS like a monster.

And you'll put a deposit on the house tomorrow?

don't let me hear you say again 'Fuck orders'! You're a corporal who's been assigned a duty, and if your superiors have chosen not to tell you the reason for it, then they have a reason for that too. Good Christ, you're an SS man; behave like one! 'My Honor Is Loyalty.' Those words were supposed to be engraved on your soul!

Chip frowned and looked at Lilac. She was packing books into the carton, not looking at him. He looked back at King and sought words. 'It would still be worth knowing,' he said. 'Being happy or unhappy – is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness – a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat

Hessen? Dr. Mengele. Everything's fine, there's nothing to worry about. Exactly the amateur I expected. I don't think he even understood German. Send the boys home to practice their signatures; it was just an excitement to round off the evening. No, not till 1977, I'm afraid; I fly back to the compound as soon as we clean up. So go with God, Horst. And say it for me to the others: 'Go with God.'" He hung up and said, "Heil Hitler.

The garlic bread!' Rosemary cried.

Had he wanted to get her out of the apartment that night for some reason?

On the sidewalk Terry lay, watching the sky with one eye, half of her face gone to red pulp. Tan blanket flipped over her. Settling, it reddened in one place and then another. Rosemary wheeled, eyes shut, right hand making an automatic cross. She kept her mouth tightly closed, afraid she might vomit.

Bueno, hay un par de homosexuales; pero eso son anormales normales.

Charmaine was Miss Vamp, provocative and come-hithery in floor-length white silk cut clear to her navel; Dave and Shep were provoked and went thither.

Paralyse and ultimately kill.

So much for 'tannis root'. Devil's Fungus.