War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

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.

Success is when everything that goes wrong, fits in your plan.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

I believe in the possibility of positive change at every age and every stage of life. Your whole life is ahead of you.

Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

I will be going to Belgium to win -- and we will see how the weekend develops from there.

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths.

We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.