In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

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.

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

If you want to help sentient beings, you have to get your hands dirty.

I don't regret either of my marriages - not for a minute.

It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper.

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.