Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

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.

Dance is a game of extreme emotions and freedom of the soul, where nothing is ever the same.

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

How We Respond to Our Mistakes Has a Profound Effect on the People in Our Lives

El hambre agudiza el ingenio, ” said Raphael.Hunger sharpens the wit.“Good proverb, ” said Magnus. “However, like most proverbs, it sounds wise and yet does not actually clarify anything.

If anyone has a new idea in this country there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth Cause I'll break your face...

Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood.

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right.