There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

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.

Music is love. Music is always about love.

Relationship is made for two people, but obviously some people don’t know how to count.

Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.

I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.

I don't want to be rich and I don't want to be famous.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.

I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.