I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

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.

You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.

Worst rescue ever.

At any rate you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.

You can kill somebody, but I wouldn't advise that.

From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.