You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

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.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

Follow Your Dreams, Except the One Where You’re at School in Your Underwear

There's no need to bully; be kind to unwind!

Not only are the voices in your head real, but they're accurate as well.

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.