I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

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.

Wizards are always hungry.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.

I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I did -no different than when I wrote songs for myself in high-school.

Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.