Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.

The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

...don’t discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford

We live in a society where interacting with government agents is apotentially hazardous activity

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

After you die, you wear what you are.

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.