Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.