This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.

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.

Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

Hedda's Hopper attitude was 'once a Commie, always a Commie.'

I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.

I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.