The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

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's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

Blessed, blessed is the Knower of the Lord, my True Guru, He has taught me to look upon friend and foe alike.

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

I call it the Etch A Sketch life. Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth.