Focusing on the score attaches you to the result. Focusing on the process lets you access your greatest skill and increases your fun.

A flower doesn't count the number of bees that come nor does it pump up its smell just when you walk by. Its nature, as is ours, is to expand itself no matter if anyone ever loves us back.

Get still, get calm, and let your true self out.

I am not a thing. I am not your possession. I am a human being."- CBI Agent Sam Rose

You have powerful storms in your mind? Visit the silent beaches to calm your storms! You have excessive silence in your mind? Find some powerful storms to awaken your mind!

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?

I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.