To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

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.

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

Because I grew up playing for Roma and I want to die playing for Roma, because I have always been a Roma's fan!

The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt.

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

I certainly don't see myself as Caligula.

The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.