There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

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 day the nation voted on whether I’d live or die, I woke up with a headache.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought, ] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

There's nothing as satisfying, thrilling and gratifying as parenthood.

You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion

Change is an action not just an epiphany!

She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice--a fetal smile--and it very nearly killed her.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.