...morning is the soul's night.

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.

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

I had people telling me I was the best and when it would sink in, I'd feel like I'd have to push things further, otherwise I wasn't worthy of their praise.

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.