There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

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.

Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.

TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death.

I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten.

It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.

Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

The Stormy life can be braved Only by the heart's Sunny meditations.