I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

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.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

It takes a little slip to slip. Inappropriate actions are inappropriate!

Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!

It's not revealing, it's informative.

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch on.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.