While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

a dream is only a memory of the future

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.

By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing, and then it's to be considered and fine-tuned and even calculated.

For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.

Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.

I don't write to escape reality, but to show others how to better embrace it. ~ KAL

Daily gratitude is a fountain of blessings.

Shortcuts aren't always.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

Guns are dangerous. The only thing more dangerous is not having them.

No one will ever believe that both your hard drive and mine crashed within a week of each other.

Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.

Life is only available in the present moment.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.