No one masters the heart.

One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.