It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

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.

A sincere attitude of gratitude is a beatitude for secured altitudes. Appreciate what you have been given and you will be promoted higher.

I am here not to let you fall alone, suffocate alone, quit life easy. I'll fight the fate for you and with you.

I love really long books because it feels like you are diving into a pool for a very long time.:)

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

The universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.