Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

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.

To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.

I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on.

Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

Can't be touched, Can't be stopped, Can't be moved, Can't be rocked, Can't be shook.

God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.