“EVEN RANDOMNESS IS WITHIN A SET OF PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDS...”

“It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.”

“What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.”

“To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability…. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.”

“If everything is going very well in your life, don’t change any parameters; don’t even think about it!”

“I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters”