I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.

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.

Love can literally transform a human being. It can make us do either heroic or evil deeds. It is the best inspiration ever.

Before you think of asking for support from someone for the success your dreams, ask yourself "how much of what I have can I invest?" Help yourself first!

If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

That's right, karate... made my whole body a weapon.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.