To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

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.

We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

If you believe...you will!

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

How can you fight someone you can't hit?

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!