One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

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.

When he smiles like that, there's a single dimple. It was the thing that got me the very first time I saw him.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

In humor, almost always, less is more.

To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words