My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.

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.

Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.