Deep down he is shallow.

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.