there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

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 worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious.

One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.

A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.

my lungs sucked at being lungs.

Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

There's a battle going on inside you in Ramadan, and for 30 days Allah gives you the power to win.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.