In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

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.

No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

Like everyone else, I don't want it to get too far away from the racing because as time progresses, we're trying to get new fans and still keep the old fans and we've still got to have the racing.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.