You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

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.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.

Game, set, match equals tennis. Set, match, run equals arson.

I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water.

Whoa! I better lay off the peyote!

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?