Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.

But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.