It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.

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.

The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

We are learning to work with intuition, which actually is Soul giving us gentle guidance to make our life better.

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.

No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

Respect Life and Life will respect You. Love Life and Love will shower Blessings on You.