I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil

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.

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

But death is not easy, and life can win by simulating it.

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.