There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.