Which is worse, hell or nothing?

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.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

Jah sitteth in Mount Zion, and rules all creation!

Less feelings means less goodbyes.

Now he belongs to the ages.

Forever turned out to be too long.

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.