Technology is lust removed from nature.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

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.

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.