How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

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.

Most people made comments on how I was the strongest woman they knew.That was before the title wave of disaster hit my charmed life.

All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.