He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?