Quotes About Solipsist

Everybody who was anybody seemed to be going to a meeting, the glowworm, who was a solipsist, the lemur who was not.

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

Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either—he had long ago made a pact with himself to postulate a Created Universe on even-numbered days, a tail-swallowing eternal-and-uncreated Universe on odd-numbered days—since each hypothesis, while equally paradoxical, neatly avoided the paradoxes of the other—with, of course, a day off each leap year for sheer solipsist debauchery.

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

Not enough samurai in the world today. Just a bunch of assholes running wild with much too much freedom." Henry Rollins, from his book Solipsist.

Metafiction is untrue, as a lover. It cannot betray. It can only reveal. Itself is the only object. It's the act of a lonely solipsist's self-love, a night-light on the black fifth wall of being a subject, a face in a crowd. It's lovers not being lovers. Kissing their own spine. Fucking themselves. True, there are some gifted old contortionists out there. Ambrose and Robbe-Grillet and McElroy and Barthelme can fuck themselves awfully well.