Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.

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 a story. I wake up, it was a sacred dream.

A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die.

Much that may seem evil can be good.

If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.

Above all, keep your colors fresh!

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

The main fun of being an actor is that you get to bounce around to a lot of different worlds.

I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.