Two things are always the same the dance and war.

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.

The gut is the seat of all feeling.

If there is heaven then there must be hell too, don't think that The God is merciful, he didn't create hell for himself.

Somehow when we no longer feel in control we become available to deeper aliveness.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

There ain't no me if there ain't no you.

Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim Morrison.

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, "Gosh, do I want to be on a series?"