When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.

Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it.

The good thing about being in someone else's apartment is it's so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out.

Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.