Every love story is a ghost story.

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.

The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.

Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.

I think the United States is way behind the times.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

These are the days of miracle and wonder.

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.