It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

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.

This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.

He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly . . . that tartness was part of the allure all along.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we'd give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: They'd reveal their majestic ways

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.

Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti.