Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.

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.

I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.

I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta."Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.

Trees are metaphorical. Their magic is that they bring beauty, comfort, and peace to the land. They celebrate life itself.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

Beauty is not defined by the clothes you wear or the makeup on your face BUT by the way you carry your struggles with smiles, hard work & love

Now, after divorce with Tom Cruise, I can wear heels.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.