Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

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.

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.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Governments don't spy on you for your protection, they spy on you to see if you're planning a revolt.

The temptationTo take the precious things we have apartTo see how they workMust be resisted for they never fit together

My big goal in life is to prove people wrong.

I have a winning temperament. I know how to win.

I have such poor vision I can date anybody.

L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

Just keep following your damn dreams, it just costs a lot of damn money. I'm broke, but I have a dream.

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.