What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

Live fully each day to the full . . .

Hate poisons your life.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

I am daily making myself what I am.

A possession can't make you happy.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

I let my love for myself grow infinitely. I understand that loving myself is emotionally healthy and necessary to my well-being.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

I'm not comfortable leaving my house. If someone invites me over, I would go but it's not like I'm one to say, 'Hey, let's hang out at your house tonight.'

The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

Metallic trees. That's new. If you see any steel dryads, be sure to tell me so I can run away screaming.

I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.