Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

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.

Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

It proved what he had always instinctively known.Love is Forever.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

I hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.

I strive to do my best every single time and I think that's something the skate community knows about me and appreciates.

I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.