Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

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.

When we will learn to see, not you and me, but only we, then there will be peace in this world.

Look at me, making one of your dreams come true. You and your Norm truck driving around Normville.""You're practically a god.

It bears emphasizing: our traditional ways of thinking have ignored - and virtually made invisible - the relationship between people and technology.

One of the most powerfulquestions you can ask yourself is, ‘How do I hold myself back?’Once you know the answeryou can get out of your way.

Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflower the immigration laws weren't as strict in those days.

Revenge is a really narrow scope through which to view things. In the same way secrets do, it has this ability to warp everything. But secrets are more inward, and revenge is outward.

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.