I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

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.

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.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

I want to be more like the ocean... no talk and all action.