days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

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.

The pleasure of reading is indescribable.

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.