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.

Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.

The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.

We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!

Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

Inside a Lover's Heart,there's another world,and yet another.