Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.