It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line.

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've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.