I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

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.

Of all things, I liked books best.

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.

Ye might no know this about me…”

Got a bout of doubt? Breathe.

The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.