I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

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.

Meditation is the glue that holds our mind, body, and spirit together

It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled".

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel.