Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

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.

I give this freely

When skies above were not yet namedNor earth below pronounced by nameThere was water...

...brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar.

As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.

I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

I love you so much that it feels like the universe will explode, for as long as it takes for the oceans to dry up, so much that I don't care if my soul burns to ashes.