Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

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.

I say vote for Trump. Vote for Trump. We're going to do a lot of thing that are going to make this country much better. We're going to do tremendous things.

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

Writing is a great love of mine.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers