The man who knows his limitations, has none.

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.

Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom.

For the wealthy, money is a tool. For the impoverished, it is the rule.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not

If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly.

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

Time is more than just a work issue; it's also a life issue. The way you spend your time defines the life you life.

Be willing to laugh at your humanness and at your divinity.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

Even when I had nothing, I had everything. Because I love to compete.

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.