I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.

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.

open science is returning science to its true essence

There exists a sacred strength for every great accomplishment.

Nothing snubs quite like a cat. What evolutionary purpose did it serve, this inherent disdain, this artful blanking?

My dear, you are not one person. You have many people in you, and each one can ask only some kinds of questions.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

I believe most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion.