No one can help an alcoholic or addict until he or she is ready to try to get better.

It’s your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn’t. Home is death.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.