The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

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.

My skin was the border between the world and me.

I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

I'm a Bookchinite, and nobody has a right to claim that but me.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.