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

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

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

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

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

"You are all a lost generation."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"You attract what you need like a lover"

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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