Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

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.

True kindness is an anchor that drops deep into the heart and you feel it while it’s dropping. Meanwhile, untrue kindness is merely a condition of the face.

YOU are what you're allowing yourself to be!

When we share those stories we've been scared to share, voicelessness loses it's wicked grasp.

If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.