Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

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.

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.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull.

Leaders take actions. Attacking your plans with blows of actions will not cost you painful but temporal bruises. Never leave goals untouched.

He can come up with the most exotic things I’ve ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.

We are constantly reminded about how short life is. Please try to leave your best positive impression on everyone that you meet.

Are you telling me that now the government is going after attorneys? They’re going to put every attorney for everyone they think is a bad guy in jail?

Look your best - who said love is blind?

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

Maintenance is terribly important.

And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.