Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

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.

Never leave the egg in you not laid. Don't leave the laid eggs there not hatched. You deserve the best

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

whether you have training or not, the way to make your look make sense is to surround yourself with the things you love.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.