I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.

The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Fact is just fiction with different storytellers

It would surely be a mistake to gauge the success of feminism by its success as a colonial project. p41.

I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

I'm bi-winning. I win here, I win there.

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.