I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

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.

Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable

Without grace, there is no gratitude.

​The human brain creates everything that you are.

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

Players win games, and coaches win players.

There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

The history of mankind is his character.

Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí

Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.