Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.

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.

So much of how we think, feel, and live depends on our vision-what we choose to see in any given situation.

The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on . . .

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

You see how picky I am about my shoes and they only go on my feet.

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

I'm really just a country boy.

To fear the worst oft cures the worst.