Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

What would you do if money was no object?

Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them, and when they come into being that's you coming into being, you know that very well. Only you don't have to remember the past in the same way you don't have to think about how you work your thyroid gland. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it, like you breathe. Doesn't it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing, and that you're doing all of this and you never had any education on how to do it.

Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.