I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

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.

Money doesn't change people, it only brings out the good or bad in their subconscious minds.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.

There are a lot of things that people are doing unconsciously wrong.

I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.

The sad truth is, they should never trust me.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.