The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

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.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die.

I could play Arab roles, even German roles, Italian roles because I had that look.

If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.