Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.

All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.