I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt assadness.

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.

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.

There is a vast existence beyond what our eyes can see, and if we close our minds we limit our possibilities.

This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.

In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.