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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

When I got to 40 or so… I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.