I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

Imagination is the voice of the daring.