Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

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.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.

Just that one word—sound—sent a strong answering pulse through her body. His tongue curled around syllables that weren’t there, like a promise. This is what you’ll get, if you just let me hear.

A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?

It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.