Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

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.

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this.

A grateful person is rich in contentment.

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.