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

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Facts are lonely things.