I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

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.

Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time!

Heroes are the saints of every nation.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies: knock me your lobes.

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.