Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.

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.

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

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.

A book is the only immortality

If you are not part of the solution to help better humanity then you are slowly becoming part of the problem!

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second.

First rule in this world baby... don't believe ANYTHING you see on the news.

I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.

Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.

When you pick up your first magazine you definitely hope you can be like the guy on the magazine. That's usually why you start lifting.