Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

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.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.

I got it wrong – I was singing for myself when I should have been singing for you all. - Burt

Be creative, be inventive minded, dream bigger that's the way to the promised land (your destiny).

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

I never thought of doing anything but comics, except maybe being a pilot.

Yes, darling, let me cover your face with kisses-On second thought, just let me cover your face

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State