For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

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.

She read about people she could never be and adventures she'd never have.

Management should have goals.

It seems as if Americans like to be the center of attention even after they're dead.

What you desire is what you want, what you have is what Allah wants.

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

I like the fact that Hogan's shoes all have this sporty sole that is great even for an older man with a bad back like me.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.