The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

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.

Everything was burning. Today it was the bodies

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don't wait. Just ship.

The last word in an argument is what a wife has. Anything a husband says after that is the beginning of another argument.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

There's no victory-condition for being human.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

My dates are nightmares! If she were awake, alive, not on parole and truly single that would start. Place, time and what we do matters little if I'm out with the right woman.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.