I'd like to lose interest in myself.

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.

The relationship you take for granted is the one that needs the greatest work.

A star-spangled sky and you were looking the other way, the night beckoned and waited and you waited for the day.

The people of Disney are so incredibly amazing they are so nice.

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

When your body says 'no,' it doesn't matter how big your heart is.

I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make a decision.

In life we have decisions to make, paths to take and opportunities to take advantage of.

Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.