I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

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.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

A single man is minority, a leader is the majority.

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?

Love makes the air light.

I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.

I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.