A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

I don't really have a retirement plan.