There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe 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.

Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

Never give up hope. Know that you are loved.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.