Stephen Hawking Creation Quotations

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these universes that are compatible without existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense, the lords of creation.

What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?

The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can't understand, or was it determined by a law of science? I believe the second. If you like, you can call the laws of science 'God', but it wouldn't be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions.