Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

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.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

No, she was just a woman. And that meant she could feel, she could need, she could give and she could receive.

Summon the strength of your capabilities —not just housed in the mind - but, empowered within the Soul.

When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'

I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'

I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.