What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

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 hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Achieving success is like hitting a moving target. Both require accuracy, the ability to counteract external factors and adjusting the sight when necessary.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna

The universe is infinite, and the experiences and opportunities available to us are likewise.

We are all joined in a circle of stories.

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.

It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

Writing a poem is discovering.

I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.