War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

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.

Even in solitude, silence stays, like a loyal supporter, with its unbroken presence.

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.

Christian is going to be the strongest man in the NBA next year, because all he's been doing all summer is carrying around the luggage for 11 guys.

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

Beauty is only a look. It has nothing to do with what I'm like inside.