Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

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.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

A great White Bear waits outside. He has faithfully promised to make us all rich if he can but have our youngest daughter.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.

There is no such thing as human superiority.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

One must use the weapons one finds in one's path.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

My parents have always been very open.