“Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.”

“Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.”

“Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile--true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.”

“science is the best way to do anything (if you want to do terrible things with technology, a terrible weapons for example science is the best way to do it because science is the best way to do anything)”

“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”

“And I don't pretend to know what you know
no no
now please don't pretend to know what's on my mind
if we already knew everything that everybody knows
we would have nothing to learn tonight
and we would have nothing to show tonight
oh but everybody thinks
that everybody knows
about everybody else
nobody knows
anything about themselves
cause they're all worried about everybody else.”

“I don't care
For your fairytales
 You're so worried about the maiden
Oh, you know she's only waiting on the next best thing”

“Romantic love interests almost everybody, because almost everybody knows something about it, or would like to know.”

“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”

“I'm actually very sensitive about those things, and it's personally painful…You know, whenever they made fun of my makeup, it was because the newspapers colorized my photograph.”