my cat is always looking at me like i am forgetting something crucial and he depends on it

i want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of doritos at a party

shrimp and green peppers are shriveling in my refrigerator

i wish cats could float around your head

i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages

One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it

I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone.

There is no limit to suffering.

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.”

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

I don't know much about that whole grunge thing.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.