There are worse things than being mad.

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.

Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!

All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

A writer is someone who has written something today

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.