There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

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.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it’s just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.

Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.