I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

There are many reasons to be simple. It’s simply to learn effectively, to work positively, to communicate actively and to live successfully.

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

If we own the story then we can write the ending.

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.