Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous.

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.

Societies that have condoned male cheating and condemned female cheating are simply male-dominated cultures. Cheating is cheating, no matter who is doing it. It’s wrong.

Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.

Nicky Shorey is the provider but Shane Long has made this all on his own

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

The Soul should always stand ajar.

It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!

Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class.

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?