I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

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.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

It's always great to have a family member who knows exactly what you're going through in every way, shape, and form, and I'm blessed to have that in my sister.

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.