The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

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.

He who has foresight has more than two eyes.

Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!

Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

Oh God, baby...love me.

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.