I write for myself and strangers. The strangers dear Readers are an afterthought.

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.

My love for you is passionate and strong.

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

...I need a boyfriend. And to get a boyfriend, you have to look good. Doesn’t hurt to smell good too.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. He confessed in front of the most respected judge in the land, Oprah Winfrey.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

There is nothing I love more than helping someone realize how corrupt our food system is and them making great changes in their own life because of it.

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.