Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

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.

It isn’t what you don’t know that’s the problem. It is what you’re unwilling to ask.

Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.

But here's how it works: when the world has told you once too often and once and for all that you are nothing nothing nothing then you come to the conclusion that others may be nothing too.

No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters.

I like a high boot on a girl.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Love makes life a little brighter

Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.

The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.