If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.

Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

If you want to be happy, practise it every day

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.