Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

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.

Let’s return to the main argument. People are hurting as hell. It matters. We should do something to make them happier, if we can.

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do.

Hope is a dream deferred.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

Working because you want to, not because you have to is financial freedom.