I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

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.

Make the most of the best and the best of the worst, and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

laughter is the best medicine in life, chocolate is the substitute!

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

Really. I'd love to be spoiled on by others.

I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.

I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.