What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

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.

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

Rise in mighty strength and live your dream.

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?

I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.