We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

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.

The invisible God.

Mom used to tell me not to worry when people didn't get me. People throw rocks at things that shine - from the mixed up files of Tilly Adam's journal

History has shown us that every sustainable great level of success has always been a product of one's mental programming.

No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work. It's about the writer you're becoming while writing.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.