all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

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 think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

Is this not the reason I write, to leave a piece of me behind?

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine

Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

I will catch Christ with a greased worm, And when the Prince of Darkness stalks My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . . On water the Man-Fisher walks.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.