It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

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.

Wishing you a bucket of love and joy today and always.

Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.

i like your embraces because the vertigo smells like the sun.

The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.

Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.