you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

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.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man - break the fetters!

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

'Tis pride that pulls the country down.