Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

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 were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.

Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship

Polarization breeds respect

Grown ups’ could learn a lesson from watching cartoons.

I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.

Wherefore a good name is better than riches.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

This is for all the little Stingers

I was a total sci-fi geek. Star Wars was my ultimate favorite.

You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.