Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.

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.

Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.

Love is the greatest self.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

But the loss of any friend takes a long time to heal.

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But so much more happens to you. There's more at stake in life.

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.