Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?

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.

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widowed me and murdered me and resurrected me whole a thousand times over with each hour.

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

Every fighter has to go in there with a game plan.

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust.

If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.