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

"The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on."

"My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen."

"I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist."

"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."

"How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on."

"While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough."

"Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all."