Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.

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.

....because of all the things in this world that can hurt you and knock you down, I will never be one of them.

I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

I've dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard to get around. You never get to see each other, especially if you're both musicians.

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.