He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

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.

Say the negative and do the opposite.

I bet she thought she was getting into a fight with a vanilla wafer on roller skates but little did she know she was getting into a fight with a spider sandwich.

I went to art school when I was little.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

Somebody has to be sane during regular business hours, and it's not going to be me, missy.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

When things change, I think that's easy to get really wrapped up in the complaints.