The End of the Tour

"If you dedicate yourself to anything, one facet of that is it makes you very self-conscious."

"There's good self-consciousness and then there's also a toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedoins self-consciousness."

"I treasure my regular-guyness."

"The more people think you're really great, the bigger the fear of being a fraud."

"A lot of women in magazines are pretty in a way that is not erotic because they don't look like anybody that you know."

"This is nice.  This is not real."

"Writing books is a little bit like raising children.  You have to be careful though.  It's okay to take pride in your work but it's bad to want the glory to reflect back on you."