...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

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.

You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's.

Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior.

Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills.

I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.