She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.

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.

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.

You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.

Pain has many faces . . .the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pains . . . a man can endure excruciating physical pain, and yet he can be felled by one unkind word.

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

I've never been called a man of few words.

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.