This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.

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.

You may start small but don't stay small

Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.

Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .

Friedman suggests self-differentiation is about knowing where you end and others begin.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

The great trues are too important to be new.

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.