In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

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.

I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die.

Tides do what tides do–they turn.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.

Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.

There's no end to suspicion once you get going.