The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

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.

Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer.

What's the difference in wanting someone you don't like to vanish and dreaming about a world in which they don't exist? They're just two ways of saying the same thing.

And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after.

Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.