I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

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.

I am a part of all I have read.

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying a more personal approach.

It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.