This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

I didn’t intend the book as anything therapeutic and I don't think that’s a novel’s goal or responsibility.

I'm awful at hiding it when I'm miserable. Sometimes I think if I were better at it maybe I'd be able to fool myself. Trick the misery right out of me.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.