When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

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.

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

I don't have time. Come back after the election.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

Myspace hurts my eyes.

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

I will sometimes post tweets that are about a specific person or people, in which case I will imagine the people I am tweeting about to be my audience.

I'm sure thousands of people in the world are taking on twice what I am attempting. I'm really looking forward to it all.