Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

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.

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

I'm married, I'm monogamous, but I'm not dead, and Bill isn't either.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16.

It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.