Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.
There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving...
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
The – writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody’s head.
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people’ll pay your price.
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun’s just started.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
I’m not against TV; I don’t go on the morning talk shows because I’m not invited. If I was, I might go.
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.