Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

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.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

Keep your sense of humor. Stay funny.

Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.

My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing.

The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.

... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?