In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.

And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.

Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions.

Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.

I can't stand to see myself on television.