From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

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.

Ignorance hides in darkness

There will never be a point in my life where it is acceptable to waste time.

There is a lot in Adam Smith that reflects the insights of Rousseau and anticipates those of Marx.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

Long Island for me, it's producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

The film [Aquarius" ] is very, very successful. We had the highest per-screen average of last week's releases.