The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

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.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily married people are the least happy group of all and they pull down the average.

Try - now's gift.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

Neither bribe nor loose thy right.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

Growing up, my room was covered in posters. I was like, "I want to make posters."

I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.