I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
I have absurdly vivid dreams.
If there is any one secret of success it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.