"One must dare to be happy."

"We are always the same age inside."

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."

"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

"You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance."

"If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me."

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer."

"Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing."

"It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do."

"Let me listen to me and not to them."

"In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling."

"A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing."

"I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich."

"Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?"

"You attract what you need like a lover"

"For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts."

"If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

"You have to know what you want to get it."

"There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance."

"America is my country, and Paris is my home town."

"You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle."

"You are all a lost generation."

"You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!"

"Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous"

"It takes a heap of loafing to write a book."

"I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing"

"Whenever you get there, there is no there there."

"When I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family?"

"She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting."

"There is no there there."

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

"If you can do it then why do it?"

"Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful."

"If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles."

"If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation."

"A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive."

"A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist."

"What is the answer?" [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ] In that case, what is the question?"

"It is very easy to love alone."

"This is the place of places and and it is here."

"A rose is a rose is a rose."

"If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic."

"The artist works by locating the world in himself"

"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."

"War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost."

"I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences."

"Affectations can be dangerous."

"I am I because my little dog knows me."

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story."