We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

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

Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.