First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

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 human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

It almost feels like a movie or a- I know it's been said many times - that cable television is the new novel kind of thing - but it does feel like that.

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

It will not always be summer: build barns.

Climate change is my greatest concern.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

A man must walk before he can fly - one cannot fly into flying.

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.