“I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.”

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.

Open your mind and let the pictures out

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.

When you stop growing you start dying.

Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.

If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships.

When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.

The rich must wish to give! Life in man should be like a flame, warming all with whom it comes into contact. The spiritually awakened are like to bright torches in the sight of God, they give light and comfort to their fellows.

In Japan, we say that words make our reality. The words we see and with which we come into contact tend to bring about events of the same nature.

With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you’re braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one’s toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.

An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator – I thought in despair – and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.