It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

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.

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

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.

Generally ‘training’ went something akin to this:“So what you have to do is

If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends enemies and relatives say behind his back.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

The greatest flight I've ever flown was coming home.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.