As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

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.

Hope keeps us alive. Life is interesting because of egocentric hope and love full sprit.

Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get any wetter.

No one can hurt me now 'cause i have stopped permitting them.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

God, you smell nice, ” he whispered. “I've missed that smell. I've missed everything about you, little Ann.

You've got to love what's yours.

When I think about the stuff I turned down it's kind of insane.

This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are, they're not dark and dangerous.