Evil is movement towards void.

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.

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.

The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.

I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance.