Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

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.

Imagining a virtual mentor evokes a genuine feeling of being supported and loved.

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

Anything you pray for, you need to prepare for.

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.