This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

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?

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.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

The difference between one person who is living in poverty and another person living in wealth is their understanding of what to do with time.

…there was no more that I could do to make myself look better in that moment than smile and be kind…

Rightly onward, pursue your dreams.

Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.

Ask not from whence I came for the gravity of the future pulls me ever forward.

I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.

Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.

My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.