Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

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.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

The only ride I’m interested in is on you, cowboy, but I’m sure all the women say that.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

I love the water; I love to swim.

I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.

Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.