Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

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.

My words shouldn’t be trophies to look at, but seeds to continue the cycle of Life.

It isn’t always true that a critical end justifies desperate means.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of manThat function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.