America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

Faith Food Fun

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays

Those of us who are brave enough to venture out, find so many things that we never knew within.

Men are naturally unequal. They are unequal members of one family, in which one can be brilliant, another mediocre, and another an imbecile. Hereditary substance is a mystery.

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.