Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

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.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

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