Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

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.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

The difference between ideas and resources is that resources has its limits.

Be brave. Things will find their shape.

I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.

This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.