There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

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.

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.

You haunt my days and dreams.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.

I will remember this word," he said. "Shenanigans. It is a good word.

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

I have 17 dogs and I like to dress them, so I started designing this clothing line and it's really cute, like dresses and jeans - everything you can imagine for humans, but for dogs.