The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it