Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

We're not like the distance guys. I have a very simple approach. I don't overcomplicate. People ask me, are you doing 42 steps, 44 steps for 100 metres? I don't know.