"There's an end to suffering when you understand the openness of things. And that the way out would be to have a right view of it, (that is an understanding of the whole situation, the whole transitory…"

"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!"

"To be a poet in a time of great stress, you have to be a prophet."

"To be good, you've got to be a little crazy."

"Put your queer shoulder to the wheel."