You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
There's too many actors in LA. I mean, I'll go out there from time to time, but I always find it pretty soul-destroying. I don't drive, and the people kind of rub me the wrong way. It's just not home. You know? It's not New York. It's not. . . my town.
Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.
I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.