Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

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

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.