I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

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.

Tell me, what's the difference between tracking a wild beast and securing a husband?

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.

You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.

My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.

If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.