Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

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.

Stop blaming people for not making you to achieve your dreams. The question is "are they the people having those dreams?

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

To be is to be perceived

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.

You don't have to feel like a waste of space, your original can not be replaced

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.