As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.

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.

Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . "Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In

The only true immortality lies in one's chi

Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.