That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

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.

Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.

O Lord my God, revive my soul!

Alone we are savages, together we are civilization

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.