Wear your boots if you wander today

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I delight in what I fear.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination.

For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

If you really want to see change, and have change, you're going to have to get involved.

Trust your gut. Respect and show up for yourself or no one else will. Show up for your friends too.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.

He missed his imagined future.

The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.