I thought if I could make people laugh about how awkward I am, it'd make me less awkward. But you also realise how fun it is to make people laugh.

'What's a couple?' I asked my mum. She said, 'Two or three'. Which probably explains why her marriage collapsed

Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along one path and - bang! - the joke comes out of nowhere.

Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe.

Was it possible to find recompense, meaning, connection with others amidst the mess and the muddle ?

I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

There are a lot of good people going to Hell, and a lot of bad people like you and me going to Heaven!

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

Good shoulders and a long waist are the most necessary when it comes to wearing clothes.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?