I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

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.

All of my bad ideas were always my best.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

I'm just playing ball. Trying not to think about it too much.

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

Let the music speak for itself.

The more you say no the more people ask.

Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.