All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

I keep a pretty low profile. I live in Culver City with some roommates. I don't do the whole 'Hollywood' thing.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.