Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

I suppose these things happen

It just seems natural. You and me against the world.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.