Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral memory. The swells rose sluggishly and fell away, casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of waves on the pilings. It was a fifteen-foot drop to the dim water. The nearest land ahead of me was Hawaii.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.