When asked why she doesn't swallow her saliva very often after being asked if she was sick and she said she wasn't.
“Tension is something I have plenty of in life. I don't need it elsewhere.”
Strange Horizons interview (2008)
Context: I never read an author twice if I can't trust him or her to make it come out right. I never read an author twice if he writes the kind of books where everyone and everything is in tension from page one to the last paragraph of the last page, like that dreadful TV show, 24. Tension is something I have plenty of in life. I don't need it elsewhere.
“I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.”
“What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it?”
ABC Primetime Live interview during opening of his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., November 2004
2000s
“I don't need you to remind me of my age, I have a bladder to do that for me.”
"Trefusis Returns!" in Paperweight (1993) p. 279.
Originally printed in The Daily Telegraph circa 1990.
1990s
“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”
“I don't research anything. If I need something, I'll invent it.”
Crime Time interview (2001)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
