Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

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.

There is a direct relationship between the number of times you attempt a task and the likelihood of success.

I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.

I get a standing ovation just standing

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.