If you can put your five fingers throught it, it is a gate, if not a door.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.

Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

The wave uniting with its depth is yoga.