These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

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.

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

...life didn't always have to be so serious. That life was to be lived. That life was one great adventure, to be lived well and to the full.

Like swimming squirrels, you navigate with the help of Heaven and a stiff breeze, but you never land where you hope to—do you?

I'm a fabulous date, I make sure I look good, I like hearing what a guy has to say and I make sure the evening is a real laugh. I like to laugh.

How did it get so late so soon?

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.

Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.