- Tracy Richards: How old are you?
- God: Who knows? After the first 2 million years, I stopped counting.
- God: [answering Tracy's question about why there is so much suffering in the world] I know this sounds like a cop-out, Tracy, but there's nothing I can do about pain and suffering. It's built into the system.
- Tracy Richards: Which You invented.
- God: Right. But My problem was, I could never figure out how to build anything with just one side to it.
- Tracy Richards: One side?
- God: You ever see a front without a back?
- Tracy Richards: No.
- God: A top without a bottom?
- Tracy Richards: No.
- God: An up without a down?
- Tracy Richards: No.
- God: OK. Then there can't be good without bad, life without death, pleasure without pain. That's the way it is. If I take sad away, happy has to go with it.