You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.

We don’t have to be afraid of stepping out. We don’t have to be afraid of failing. We only have to be afraid of not trusting God.

Just as a woman's eyes are the mirrors of her soul, her shapely bottom is her seat of learning.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

We must learn how to think like the planet.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!