One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

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.

Sometimes I fear those noisy words boiling in an unsettling cauldron.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.

I really do love to do things that are nice and simple!

Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.

I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about.

Not everyone is going to like science as a subject.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.