My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

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.

The throne of grace is the gospel of salvation.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

It was very necessary I think 'cause you know, when the band's over, or at least in our heads, for a year it makes you really realize how lucky you are to be doing this and why piss in the well?

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West.