You have to know what you want to get 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.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

You decide every day who you will and will not be. Be bold in your decision but remember, choose wisely.

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

It is very helpful to have a partner on whom you can rely in any situation. But the problem starts because some people don't like it that one twin would be president and the other prime minister.

I am the Truth (Ana al-Ḥaqq).

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

No one has the last word other than God.