Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.

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 universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.

Hope is a song in a weary throat.

I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.