I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

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.

It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong

We didn’t raise any of you to walk a path other than your own.The Far West (Frontier Magic Book 3).

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not unelected federal judges appointed for life.

My grandmother used to say, "Sometimes the loudest person in the room doesn't know what they're talking about." Or isn't secure enough in his or her own views to be able to listen to others.

I see myself as a huge dork that laughs at my own jokes and forgets to shower sometimes.

How does Usain Bolt know you? You're just my soccer coach.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.