“I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”

“What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after--who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.”

“It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?”

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.”

“Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.”