Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.

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.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

How do I work? I grope.

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.

Never give nor take an excuse.

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

We suffered for our music. Now, it's your turn.

We are great sinners; Jesus is a greater Savior!