Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

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.

In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.

It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

I always love going to Paris, and now I feel like I know it really well.

Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise.