With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

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.

Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.

A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.

Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.