Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

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.

What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment?

We can't always take the higher road when faced with adversity. Sometimes for the sake of restoration, peace and sharing the love of Jesus, we have to walk through the tribulation.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

The world is just going to continue to fragment, and that's a great thing.

The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.