The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.