It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

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.

Life is a rare fantasy that can be made a reality by being objective.

That kind of imagination is why we're not dead.

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive.My motto, as I live and learn, isDig and be dugIn return.

Love is fickle and fleeting, " Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?