Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it salvation is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.

There's no way to prove that there is no God. You just have to take it on faith.

Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

I idolized Superman when I was younger. I thought he and I had a lot in common. He was always going into phonebooths and taking off all his clothes.

I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead.

Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.

In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.