Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

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.

Never allow your dreams to die. Hold on tightly to your most cherished dreams.

Are you speaking your mind or expressing your feelings?

Safety is largely an illusion, and panic knows this.

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

Who needs to walk on fire, when you can walk on water with this site.

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.