Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

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.

Learning stamps you with it's moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

The best of all lost arts is honesty

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?

When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.