But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.

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.

Oh, oh, I'm so sorry I just forgot that what I ask it can not be answered why??You don't the rights to answer it, you don't have the guts, you are afraid aren't you?

whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off

I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.