Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

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.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

Would you like to hear about the fascinating things lizards can do if you chew off their tails?

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.

They'll invite you to all the parties, but that doesn't mean you have to go all the time.

You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?

My child, everything in life is holy.

Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.