There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

There are no problems, only solutions.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.

Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.

I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.