I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

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.

Let the spark in you catch fire and burn into the air, so that it may light up the sky.

A consistent man believes in destiny

Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious and shatters all over the place.

And as long as I'm passionate about the sport, I'm able to do that and I'm happy, then I would love to do another Olympics. I'm just going to see how I'm feeling.

I think [ chief organizer of the Democratic Party ] it's something that I have an interest in.

[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.

There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.

I live on hairspray. The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.