It is all falling indelibly into the past.

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.

Children are excellent judges of character, you know

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

My friends come from many species.

Further up and further in!

We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.

I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

Yoga is all about what you do, actually do, for yourself. Every competitor that is there is there for themselves.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.