I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

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.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.