my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

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.

When you change your thinking, you change the world.

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also

There is a technical solution to every political problem...

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.