Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

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.

It is man who forsake is Maker.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

The best thing about a vacation is planning it.

You bled on the Speaking stars ...I bet there's a law somewhere about that.

All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

America has a lot of problems, believe me. I know what the problems are even better than you do. They're deep problems. They're serious problems. We don't need more.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.