Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

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 swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

I'm a tomboy at the end of the day, so anything that causes me to have to run around, fight people, roll in the dirt, hop a fence - I'm all for it. So I really would love to do an action film.

There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur'an.

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

"Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you." "I know the feeling."

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.