No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.

Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.

Dream, rather than let yourself be dreamt

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.

You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

Under the snowdrifts the blossoms are sleeping, Dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June, Down in the hush of their quiet they're keeping Trills from the throstle's wild summer-sung tune.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.