Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

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.

The row was actually about everything in creation, but it had for its subject of the moment the boy's mustache.

Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

You realize that you aren’t leaving the battle field behind but are actually taking it with you and it will be a part of you forever

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.