Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

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.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barack Obama's busy moving into the White House. Earlier today, John McCain was blowing on his soup.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

Where there is unity, there is the victory.

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.