You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

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.

Don’t spend your time or money on being boring.

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

I'm kind of bipolar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything.

In prison, illusions can offer comfort.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

There is but one path. We must kill them all.