That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

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.

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.

I can feel the thunder underneath my feet

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.