Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Gertrude Stein
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
We are always the same age inside.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
It is very easy to love alone.
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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.
A diary means yes indeed.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Romance is everything.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Remarks are not literature.
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
History takes time. History makes memory.
There is no there there.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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.
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
