...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

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.

You are changing the world with your thoughts, actions, and creation.

Young men wish: love money and health. One day they'll say: health money and love.

If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!

Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.