My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.

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.

It's amazing what flipping a grown man over her shoulder does for a girl.

Seize the moments of happiness, Love and be Loved!That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly!

If you're not at least a tiny bit jealous at this point, you might want to check for your own pulse.

In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.