Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

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.

Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.

Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull the pain of living.

Gracie, you are exactly where you are supposed to be and everything is going to be all right.Willem

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Know someone you hate? Give their kid a kazoo!

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.