...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses - places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with.

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.