And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.

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.

Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

If you want to see God move make a move.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.