A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

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.

People make their own luck.

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.

When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

Baby I'll never forget none of that. Girl I told you I was comin back.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.