What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

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.

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.

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

No!You cant get this close to me and then push me away.

If you been feeling or acting crazy, think about it perhaps you are.

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.