in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

I can’t wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.