There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

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 live each day with the joy of blessed moment.

The same way we grow our bodies we must attend to our mind and spirit.

Truth is in the guidance of the Coven. Is it a curse or a blessing?

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.