"How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun."

"I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out."

"The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure."

"A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear."

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."

"You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off."

"“A cucumber is bitter.” Throw it away. “There are briars in the road.” Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, “And why were such things made in the world?”"