Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

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.

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone.

You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz …anything that contains the original energy ofjoy.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

To have more, you've got to become more.

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.