He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .

Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.

While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.

Desire and anger are objects of the mind, but the mind is not yours, nor ever has been. You are choiceless, awareness itself and unchanging - so live happily.

You may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything.

This existence is just imagination. It is nothing in reality, but there is no non-being for natures that know how to distinguish being from non being.

My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got another deal at 26; that failed, and then I was broke.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

When we see others victimized we must speak out. We have to seek justice for everybody.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.