LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

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.

Be true to yourself and others will be true to you, too.

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

An ugly woman cooks your meals on time, and she'll always treat you kind.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

In whose delusional mind is democracy made 'better' by allowing wealthy people to control more of it?

Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.

I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.

Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.