We're all of us haunted and haunting.

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.

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

Unfortunately, in many cases, the rule book goes way too far - it tries to tell people how to be instead of explaining what we're trying to do.. We need recipes, not rules.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.