She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

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.

I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn

Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.

I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.

As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.

The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.