Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

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.

Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever

I apologize to my words for not nurturing you and giving you the attention that you deserve.

You can be all you want to be, even if the odds are against you. For it is in the darkest hours that the smallest light shines the brightest.

In life, we are all playing the game of thrones one way or the other

I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

It's important to find a team where you can be comfortable. I know there are a lot of high expectatons.

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.