Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see 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.

Dexter Morgan is more like disguise and influence... and everything = fake.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Is he under the influence or something?

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champion and the world champion, but I want Justin Gatlin to be the champion of everything.

History paints the human heart.

Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in.