I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.

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.

If we learn to love someone for their imperfections that reflect our own, we eventually appreciate the thought that even the most beautiful things are damaged

Expect the best, prepare for the worst.

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

There's always something to talk about.

I am a fairly go-with-the-flow guy. Don't get me wrong, I have convictions.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

You can if you think you can.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.