The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally.

How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.