If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

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.

It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.

I'm a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of 'Lost in Love' and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!

Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle.

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.

In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.