Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.

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.

Hate is too mild of a word. But it's nothing personal, I don't think.

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

Time lost can never be retrieved. Time cannot be hoarded, only spent well.

Every studio needs a rubber chicken.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance.

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

The work is demanding, the impact everlasting. This is no time for 'summer soldiers' in the army of the Lord.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.