Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.
Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.
Of course I’m inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
Our similarities bring us to a common ground; Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.
Jackson Pollock said once, “I don’t really feel that many people in this world are alive.” He said, “That’s why I like you, Tom. You’re alive.”
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.
Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
The beet is the most intense of vegetables.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
To be or not to be isn’t the question. The question is how to prolong being.
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.
Cries for help are frequently inaudible.
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.
You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning ’til dee sun come up.
I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn.