The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

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.

Cigarettes are a classy way to commit suiside.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.