In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say 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.

Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.

You are beautiful no matter what they say, remember words can´t bring you down

The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.

I'd wear flip-flops and jeans. I guess that's not cool.

Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.