Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

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.

Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.

When you complete yourself is when you can complete someone else.

Hold tight, and I promise to do the same. We don't need a safety net Zena. We have each other.

She had the feeling, the tingling, lingering sense that something or someone life altering was just over the horizon. She had no idea what it was, but she wanted to rush headlong to bring it to her.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

I think there's something so attractive about mystery.