I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

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.

I underestimated your laziness.” “It’s pronounced intelligence, Kirk.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as far as creating a lane for myself to be independent.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.