Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

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.

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

The past is as easy to travel into as turning the pages of a book...

What I saw was just one eyeIn the dawn as I was going:A bird can carry all the skyIn that little button glowing.Never in my life I wentSo deep into the firmament.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

How do I relax? This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it.

I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?

When you study the Tao Te Ching, you have to use your heart to try to imagine what Tao really is.

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.