You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

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.

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

There are two kinds of love. One kind you live with, the other you write poetry about.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn’t make any difference.

Self-reliance and self-learning are your greatest assets.

Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?

I’ve been a barbarian my whole life. I’m just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?

Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.

All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread.

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?