What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

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.

Remove your blindfold-you can see bread or gold where others see stone

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

In the bed of suspicion, no cushion can make a man to sleep

On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top of the pyramid.

Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.

Use your notebook to breathe in the world around you.