You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

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.

To get dividends from life, invest in yourself.

you will perhaps missthe part of you that is gonebut do not fear:all is for the best in the worldand soon you will not realize it is gone:you have either forgotten it entirely orit has come backalive

Patriotism, that least discerning of pas

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

Evil person causes harm even if treated will.

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.