Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

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.

And finally

Tell me whom you frequent and I will tell you who you are.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one will ever quite reach its end.

I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

God has just always put me in the right place I guess.