Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

It's like hitting the lottery. We've got more tickets than everybody, but you've still got to hit.

Oh, I don’t buy lottery tickets... because if I won, and I was capable of that kind of odd luck, then I would also be equally capable of extremely bad luck, like getting struck by lightning, or falling out of window or something. I’d rather just not know.

You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it,

So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

Yeah, whenever the jackpot for any lottery gets up over $50 million, we sell more tickets.