A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.