It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

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.

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.

Sadness is a grieve spirit. But Sorrow is refined the soul.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:"Leave no stone unturned.

I can forgo my lunch to get the book, I love to read.

I'll live in another world, then.

Once I pull up to the stadium, for me it's all business. This is my job and I take it really serious.

The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's because there's a lot of very cool folklore about it.

All poetry comes from repetition.

Treat people you do business with as if they were a part of your family.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?