I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’