We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.

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.

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

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.

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me

It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

They did nothing wrong their time here has ended

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

Why are people so unkind?

In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.