Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

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 let my love for myself grow infinitely. I understand that loving myself is emotionally healthy and necessary to my well-being.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

It seems so simple now, but it took me a long time to figure out that happiness is experienced when we finally give ourselves permission to let go of the things that make us sad.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.