My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.

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.

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.

I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.

You mellow too much you ripen and rot.