“It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.”
“If there is any irreverence in my own work, I hope it is the irreverence I bear in mistrusting my own sincere self, which then sincerely mistrusts the irreverent me. If there is a bottom to this, I think it is a life’s work.”
“Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”
“Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.”
“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
“You’ve always called me irreverent. You’ve branded me irreverent. In my mind you invented irreverent.”