Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

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.

Don't worry about the negative people may say about you. Learn from it and move on.

What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.

I gotta look out for my band mates. - Tea

Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.

If somebody says they don't watch the leaderboard, I don't buy that, I'm sorry. Because you've got to know where you are to know how to play.

Look, up in the sky! It's the sky!

Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.

What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.