The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

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.

In times of failure you are alone. But success brings many friends.

Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower