"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
Truth
"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."
Wisdom
"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
Money
"Nothing ever happened in all that sequel of knowing you, and I, this is remarkable and strange."
Relationships
"The only truth is music."
Music
"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
Art
"The Dharma is the truth of the way things are."
Philosophy
"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."
"We were all young and crazy once."
"And one day, we will die and our ashes will fly from the planet just the same."
Death
"Somewhere along the line you know you'll have to make a decision about how you're going to live."
Life
"Your life is something opaque, not to be seen through, but to be lived."
Life
"I have nothing to say and I'm saying it."
Art
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live."
Freedom
"I want to be considered a great writer."
"At night when everybody's sleeping, I go out and make my solo journeys and experience what I like to experience."
Solitude
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
Courage
"Get your tongue where your heart is."
Truth
"Celebration, the human spirit."
"The road is life."
Adventure
"Walking on water wasn't built in a day."
Perseverance
"I realized that I had been spending most of my life being ashamed of myself."
"The moon is high like a monk's thoughts."
Nature
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"
Philosophy
"America seems to be the boiling point of the whole world."
History
"One human being is more interesting than all the governments."
"It is not my fault that certain passage ways happen to be there and I have to go dragging my picture-slow vulgarity down the sight line they provide."
"I wanted to be like my father."
Family
"The further I got from being anybody's friend the better."