The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

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

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.

I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.

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

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.