Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

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.

We'll free as many as we can and build an army in the forest. It might take years, but I won't rest until every last Calorin is gone from these shores and my father is restored to the throne. - Corin

it wont be possible to be famouse without courage.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job.

I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

You can win the Champions League in the worst season.