A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

Go for the hum.

The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.

The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.