Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

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.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

The White House says they will release the Osama bin Laden death photo. Better yet, they're doing it on a set of limited edition commemorative plates.

I don't really know a lot about these 'anti-protest' laws. I'm only vaguely aware of them, but I don't have enough detailed knowledge about them to comment.

They minute people fall in love they become liars.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.

And so when I graduated I moved to New York, and I was waitressing here and auditioning - and I got my first job pretty soon after.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.