Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

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.

How is something authorised as 'feng shui compliant' he wondered. Is there a Chinese Ministry of Magic?

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

Hillary Clinton's economic plan is the biggest sitting duck to be blown to smithereens, you could do it in two sentences.