The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

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 would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.

When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise.

The CIA special unit that was searching for Osama bin Laden has been disbanded. So I guess, mission accomplished.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

I am the love of my life, the marriage between my mind and my body.

True feelings never fade, we just learn to fill the spot.