I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

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.

Je ne laissa entrer que le plaisair, oui, j’ai cette capacité-là, moi, de filtrer ce qui m’arrive, de choisir, j’ai choisi de ne pas être triste.

Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.

That special bond you think you have with your pet is imaginary. As long as it has food and water, you could get hit by a train tomorrow, and your pet wouldn't think anything of it.

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.