How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.

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.

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

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.

One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, neccissarily.

I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.

The doors of hell are locked from the inside!

New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either.

I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.