People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

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.

It is ultimately your choices that decide your destiny.

I'm related to people I don't relate to.

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

Where is the yesterday that worried us so.

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

I drink because I'm thirsty.