Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

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.

Life is going on even if you are not on the train.

Nature is our spirit, breathing.

Love and hope can conquer hate.

If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found.

I make a good living doing what I do.

This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.