Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

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.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

The key to an effective life is that things done for self don’t count

The dead person once had a life! This is a misery?

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

Tim Kaine kind of gives the warmer, human face of the Democrats.

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

I'm generally a pretty friendly person.

Tick tock, this is a clock.