We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.

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.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service, ' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.

I love the day date. No wine, no shower.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.