Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

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.

Who can understand the covert world of the emotions, the secret life of the mind?

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.