No matter what happens, it’s always now.

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.

If you want to know whether or not you have had a successful life, think about what people would say about you at your own funeral.

Admittedly, there will be times when you must interact on a superficial level and adjust your behavior to fit in, go along and get along.

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.