You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

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.

You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem.

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.

In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.

Don't worry about anything. Go out and have a good time.

Twilight fans are literally on the verge of being clinically insane.

Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoil'd to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had ta mixture peen Only half Glenlivet.