A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Norman Bates: — You've never had an empty moment in your entire life, have you? Marion Crane: — Only my share.
I think we are all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever climb out. We scratch and claw... but only the air, only at each other and for all of it, we never budge an inch.