People hate people, not freedom.

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 a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.