"I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them."

"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage."

"Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet."

"Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur."

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots."

"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

"In the depths of adversity, a mind at peace can weather any storm."