At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

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.

Not knowing is half the fun, " Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.

I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."

You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see... but in order to have that 5%... you have to have another 95%.

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

Tris," said tobias. "I love you