Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.

I was born with my eyes turned inward.

Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.

If you don’t fight for your dreams, you won’t earn anything. If you don’t anything, you will beg for everything.

Be glad I don't have my gun because right now I'm considering the different ways I can get you to shut up. Let me scream and back off.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

Every generation in America has faced the same question, do we we want America to be special? Or do we just want America to be another country? The time has come again.

When you use Tabasco in the marinade, it kind of infuses everything.

Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.