Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

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.

A few stars were approaching and in their brightness I glimpsed a fragment of your vanished soul – cheerful and frivolous, unforgettable.

Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.

How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?

Serpent-Breath was famous...Wasp-Sting, short and lethal.

You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

To do high fashion, you have to go into a little bit of a higher price point.

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.