I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

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.

To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people.

If you wanted pomp and circumstance, you dealt with the vampires. If you wanted ceremony, the witches it was. But for plain old straight forward business, you dealt with the werewolves.

And the problems come... one after another... an another... that's what government wants... problems.

I'm not much into rear window ethics.

I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

I feel that I've always done things the hard way, and I've always felt a lot of pride in earning everything that I have.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?