Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

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.

Don't differentiate between "This is a job" and "This is what I'm doing for fun." It's all simultaneous.

Whatever a person wants to sacrifice for God will be multiplied many times over by God will be multiplied many times over by God for that person

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without.