People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

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.

Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help them, but also that he resented the implication that he ought to

Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

Getting lost in a place like this you can almost guarantee that you aren't going to make it out here.

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

From the heart, there is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism.

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.