Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.

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.

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

We'll always have Paris.

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.