Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

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.

Love is the beauty and ecstasy of life.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity we should not distort it.

Clarity of mind, body and spirit is the key to creativity.

I'm 100 percent impartial. I'm - my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly.

Never deceive a friend.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.