If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

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.

Wake up and dare to try... Time doesn't care to fly!

Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life.

Germany will never break the peace of its own accord.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most

If Im brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.

And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.

I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.