It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

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

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

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.

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