I like simple men and complicated women.

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.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn’t be more wrong.

We have much to hope from the flowers.

Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

God has put people in your life on purpose, Don't live to get, live to give.

She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.

Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.