No time for poetry but exactly what is.

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.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

It's not what's going to happen, but who's coming.

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

There's those who talk about it. And there's those who BE about it!

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do

We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.