It's not what you lift, it's where you carry 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.

God is the set of all the laws of nature.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.

Morality is not respectability.

It really drives me banana sangwich.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.