Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something 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.

May our lives be transformed by the power of the Holy Scriptures.

Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.

No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky!

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.