"There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope."
"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."
"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."
"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."
"All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it."
"If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse."