Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Who is more to be pitied a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine freedom and a little flower.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

I do not bring forgiveness with me nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead the living have no right to forget.

I would like to have you quote me Erich von Stroheim as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

Everything is just better in California - the wine the food fruits and vegetables the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.