What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

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 rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

The desert lay in wait, more infinite than God, no less remote.

In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering.

Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!