Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

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.

If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner of your life but the system that is compelling you.

Health is wealth

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.

The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically barred or regulated by the [Constitution] is LEGAL.

I like practicing law.

Between Ron Paul and Rick Perry, I think the lesson is don't get sick in Texas.

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

I love going for walks and like to do fun active things outdoors.

I've been fortunate - I haven't had too many auditions. I slept with the right people.

Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy