“I guess I’ll do what everyone else does: get on with my life and forget the big questions.”

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book — what everyone else does not say in a whole book.”

“What happens when we get back?
I don't know. I guess we try and forget.
I don't want to forget.”

“That's been a question, one of the big questions in my life. 'What is a human?' What are the elements that make a human?' It's a search for… how many elements do you get before you say, "Yes, it's human," where before you were saying it's not human.”

““He posed me a question which I must answer correctly—else he will not co-operate.”
“Huh? What was the question?
“I’ll ask you. Martha, what is the meaning of life?”
“What! Why, what a stupid question!”
“He did not ask it stupidly.”
“It’s a psychopathic question, unlimited, unanswerable, and, in all probability, sense free.””

“There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.”

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?”

“Round this town you've ceased to be / That's what you get for sleeping with the enemy
Guess who's gonna take the blame for my big mouth
Into my big mouth / You could fly a plane”

“I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.”