And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

Every man's entitled to hope.

Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

It could be my eyes, but my eyes have more sparks than those coffees.

Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life.

When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

The above proposition is occasionally useful.

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I haven't changed one bit.