The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.