The National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization that tacitly supports the killing of children more than it supports reasoned gun legislation.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering

You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs.

Remember, your worth is founded in Jesus Christ.