We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

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.

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

Marika was a book nerd and had a TBR pile taller than her. She was a sucker for YA

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.

Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads.

When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.