Technology is lust removed from nature.

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.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.

How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

I played a lot of the original Fight Night. I think the depiction of Trinidad in the game was awesome.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.