Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

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.

You become what you focus on and dream about.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

Everyone thinks they can write a play you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.

The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us.

What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.

What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.