If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

The path of knowledge is said to be difficult in that it is the path of Samadhi.

Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.

...painfully curious...about how it feels to fall.

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.