This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.