In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

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.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.

Losers must have leave to speak.

I love the little tacos. I love them goooood!

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.