The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.

Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.

No one can change your beliefs for you, nor can they be forced upon you from without.

You must learn to deal with your own beliefs directly or you will be forced to deal with them indirectly.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.

One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires.

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.

You must change your approach in order to change your results.

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .