The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.

The furthest out is the only place to be.

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.-Description of Doomsday

If you have lost a lot of time, then, increase your speed and make up for the time lost

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.

Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard. I regained my breath. "Boys take not everywhere: That was a kiss.

On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.