There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

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.

Thoughts made our future, Choose your thoughts wisely.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.

Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

Steve Austin will never be employee of the month!

I will never lie to you.

Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.

Click. Boom. Amazing!