If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important - if you want to operate on your default-setting - then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.

Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.

Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.

I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike