Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

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.

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?

Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

You have to work at it if you want to be a good smoker. Especially today with all the non-smoking world constantly harassing you.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

I am not very happy the way things are going out there in New Zealand.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.