It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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.

All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

Sometimes people need to be told to sit down and shut up.

Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!

I feel life is to be lived. You want to spend your time doing things and being with friends and all that.

Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.