"I am not a theorist. I am a practitioner."

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."

"Beauty is certainly a thing that exists, but it has no absolute value."

"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."

"We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going."