I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.

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.

She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost."

In mysticism, there's more of a sense of adventure, of camaraderie.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.