My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

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.

Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!

It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.

Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn't matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge!

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.