...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

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.

It's weird, all you think about when you're young is gaining your independence, but when those final hours come, people want to go home.

An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.

Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.

You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

In my race, theres 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and its what you do, you know.

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track.