The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

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 Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.

Pritchard was lonely, and like most lonely souls, he saw happy couples everywhere.

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality.

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

I've got a really sweet tooth and sometimes I just have to have some chocolate.

I have the same problem as Edward Furlong. I'm so thin!

Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I’ll do whatever you want, whatever you need. Anything. Just take me back.