There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you. I am I.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

When was the last time you just closed your eyes and just listened?