The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

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.

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.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.

Good artists are always crazy, one way or another.

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

That human, he's a lesser waiting to happen, in my opinion--nothing less, nothing more

I befriend people too quickly - I don't think that's wrong, but I get told that I should be a bit more careful.

Never sue the police. The odds are in their favour.

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

My future's about trying to be a better man