I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

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.

Being aware of who you are, you will ensure that you do not waste your time spending energy on unnecessary things

A child is a gift from God.

What was to fear from a foe that could be defeated by a few potholes and the heat of the sun?

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.

I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.