Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

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 you recognize or experience the truth about yourself you automatically feel love, because love is a quality of your true consciousness and true ideas.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.-Maggie

Unfortunately, I also found out the hard way in my youth. But I guess that's how most learning is done, isn't it?

Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age.

There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.

Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

I'm just like my country. I'm young, scrappy and hungry.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!