When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

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.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.