No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

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.

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Knowledge and wisdom comes from interaction-- not from inaction.

It is necessary to find ways of solving problem at the expense of available resources

In the face of every type of pain, we tend to think that life will never be the same, but guess what, it was never going to be the same anyway.

obsession either boosts up feeling orjust blow it off . . .

A fight with Mike Tyson or Riddick Bowe always sells, because those people came to win. When you come to win, people will see a good show. When you come to survive, it can become boring.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.