The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

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.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

I've been a vegetarian, I've been a Paleo, and now I believe in the everything-in-moderation diet.

It will be funny in about 10 years.

God has no beginning and no end.

here's certain things that are similar to cats and dogs. Dogs are just hyper social and they have a want to please you way more than a cat does.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.