Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

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.

Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.

As a comic, you learn to use your voice because you don't have the benefit of visual things.

We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.

The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.

My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body.

I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.

I promise you, Donald [Trump], there's nothing about you that makes anyone nervous.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.