Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

An unread book does nobody any good

Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.

I think Nashville could use some better shopping!

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.