Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

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.

Life is a great grace.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

I'm very opinionated and I have a lot of things to say. Sometimes I sound a bit like a willy.

I was always crazy even before the drugs.

I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was pus and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.

To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.