To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.

To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.

If someone criticizes you, give them a compliment.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

I don't expect to retire. Every man must work, that's his natural destiny.

I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan.

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.