The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

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.

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

Who are you? What are you? Why are you?

After 25 the only thing you’ll be precocious at is death.

You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.

My talent speaks for itself, I ain't gotta answer nobody else's questions. I'm going home, we're gonna have a party!

My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that.

And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.

People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.

Strengthen in us, O God, the work You have begun in us.

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.