I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

Summer had come to sit on New York's face.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.