People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

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.

Lila cringed at the ghost of Barron's words, a memory with edges still too sharp to touch.

I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.

Going home helps the content.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

The source of nature is spirit.

I don't think I could do a reality show, no.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.