“I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.”

And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,

I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.

We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.

Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer,

To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.

I think the performances that really communicate with me are the ones where I don’t feel like I’m watching someone and thinking: “They’re doing some really good acting.”

I would like, in my life, to always be doing things I’m proud of. I know that probably won’t happen all the time. But I’d prefer to be telling stories.

I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.

If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.

Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you.

So much of a stand-up’s life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.