Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living.

No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.

Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

They'll realize that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking! Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan!

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is. This has been normal for me.

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.