Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

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.

Waiting on God is not in vain!

To give yourself away keep yourself still, And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.

It is the beginning of the end.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

It is your own habits of thinking which give you mastery in any field of achievement

As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.