One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

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.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

I love to go into the studio on days when I'm not even doing anything. It's like my senior club. Some people go to senior centers, well I go to my senior center.