The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me

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.

i am like the moon--sometimes, full.sometimes, black.sometimes, forever and ever alone.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.