In my mind I lead a phantom’s life. My neighbor makes me real.

I am my world.

And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.Who knows if I’ll be dead the day after tomorrow?If I’m dead the day after tomorrow, the thunderstorm day after tomorrowWill be another thunderstorm than if...

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t—beyond a...

Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with ‘you’ in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine...

How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I...

When a solipsist dies … everything goes with him.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one’s own, but one does not like anyone else’s.

Weight Watchers holds as a descriptive axiom the transparently true fact that for each of us the universe is deeply and sharply and completely divided into for example in my case, me, on one side,...

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of...

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

I refute it thus.

Poor things, she thought – do they have to spend all this energy just to surround me? It seemed pitiful that these automatons should be created and wasted, never knowing more than a minor fragment...

O que parece haver de desprezo entre homem e homem, de indiferente que permite que se mate gente sem que se sinta que se mata, como entre os assassinos, ou sem que se pense que...

The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be asolipsist.