
“Life was treasure. The only treasure.”
Source: Imago (1989), Chapter I, “Metamorphosis” section 6 (p. 564)
Source: The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
“Life was treasure. The only treasure.”
Source: Imago (1989), Chapter I, “Metamorphosis” section 6 (p. 564)
comment to audience at book signing at Macy's in New York City (November 21, 2006)
2007, 2008
“Whaddaya mean 'old maids,' ha? The term is 'unclaimed treasure,' buddy, 'unclaimed treasure!”
Source: Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
Matsuo Bashō, Narrow Road to the Interior and other writings, Boston, 2000, p. 3 (Translation: Sam Hamill)
Oku no Hosomichi
Variant: The journey itself is my home.
“9 : A Journey Without Journeying, p. 11.”
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Reported as false in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 9-10. Falsely attributed to Brezhnev as having been said in a secret Warsaw Pact meeting in either 1968 or 1973.
Misattributed
His signature line at the end of all his correspondence, as quoted in The San Francisco Chronicle (16 December 2006) http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/16/BAGI9N0MOA1.DTL