I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

‪A wise man once said, 'Life is like breathing. If you try to hold it, you'll lose it. But let it come & go & you'll always be connected to it.'‬

A Christian who rebels against God’s Word is not a Christian at all

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

We do meditation, spiritual practices in this temporary body. Though this body is temporary, you have to use temporary things to realize the Truth.

It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.