Masochism is a valuable job skill.

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.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

Until pride (vanity) leaves, there is nothing but pain, pain and more pain!

Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.

Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck