My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

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.

You stay on me like my godsdamned shadow, vampire."Mirceo's lips curved. "Eternally, demon.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.

I hit the highway, making money the fly way; But there's got to be a better way.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

I shall know you, secrets by the litter you have left and by your bloody footprints.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.