Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.