If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

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.

It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brot

At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.

God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

It is typically Norwegian to be good

There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.