‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

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.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!

Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.

I say too much sometimes, but I'm honest, that's the important thing.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.