The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

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 more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.