The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

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.

I am proud to say that I am not in it for the money. If I made a million dollars, I would donate most of it to various charities and libraries.

The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory out

Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy?

Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.