There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

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.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

If you keep on retaliating what you receive, you'll be stuck in a infinite abyss of revenge and vendetta.

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.