Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.