Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

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.

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.

Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.

I don't need debt. And if I need debt, if I want debt, I can get it from banks in New York City very easily.

I don't want to say I'd wipe everybody out, because that's cocky. But they wouldn't beat me.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.

I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.