The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

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.

Even though she was soft and kind, her thoughts were strong like steel.

A person is neither right or wrong-- there is only a right attitude and a right interaction.

The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on . . .

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

I'll miss you most of all scarecrow.

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

The destination of the deportation is annihilation.