You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.

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.

She's growing up, " Sister Evangeline said.And I wanted to tell her no, I'm not. Everything is exactly the same.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.

A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit.

I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.