I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

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.

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

Wisdom gives you the understanding of how to live without being dependent oncircumstances in this life.

A poet's fantasy: Hiring a rapper to rap his rhymes.

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

Everyone is against Harry (Truman) except the people.

It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe: indeed, if one may say so, we should do nothing else besides.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

India is committed to strong armed forces, well-equipped with modern arms & technology!

I don't see outside of me.

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.