Rushdie is a hostage.

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.

If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is "Dare to Differ." Who know's what you'll find ?

Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label.

I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

Pain is only temporary, glory is forever