You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

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.

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Change takes time, forethought and knowledge, as well as an envisioned goal.

Be prepared before you fight a battle

...you never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

Once kids get older, the list is longer. So here goes: Stay out of debt. Sometimes debt is necessary, to buy a home or to get an education, but not to buy a sweater or to eat out.

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

I am going to love you now, slow and sweet.

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?