You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.

I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why don’t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess that’s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.