A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

You are all a lost generation.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

You came into the world to do something

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world.

And all things as they change proclaim The Lord eternally the same.

If it ain't fun don't do it.

Persistence, persistence, persistence. I'm surprised how few entrepreneurs follow up.

I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.