And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

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.

Fate had a weird way of circling back over paths that were meant to cross.

Trustworthy friends are very hard to come by, and when they do, be sure to keep them without a single hesitation.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

People are already worrying about the ball moving around and all that jazz.

Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.