The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

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.

To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update.

If things are built on a poor foundation, there is absolutely nothing there”.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? That's all I wanted to do. To share the love and gift of entertainment. That's all I want to do. I don't want to hurt anybody.

I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.

I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk