I Don't Care About Being Famous Or

No Single Person Who Has Ever Lived Will Be Able To Tell You What Happens. Period. Nobody's Right And Nobody's Wrong.

Not Many People Care What You Do. They Care About What You Do As Much As You Care About What They Do. Think About It. Just Exactly That Much. You Are Not The Center Of The Universe.

I Didn't Really Understand That Vipassana Is A Relatively New Form Of Buddhism That Was Based On The Storage Of Pain. So The Idea Is That Every Time You Don't Scream, That's Your Buddhist Side.

. . . I Wrote A Letter To Thomas Pynchon Asking, Can I Have Your Permission To Try To Make An [adaptation] Of Your Book? And I Had No Idea That He Would Answer Me, Because He's Pretty Elusive. But He Did Send A Letter Back That Said, Yes, You Can Do That - As Long As The Only Instrument In The Opera Is A Banjo. I Thought, That's An Interesting Way Of Saying No.

You Know, I Can See Two Tiny Pictures Of Myself And There's One In Each Of Your Eyes. And They're Doin' Everything I Do. Every Time I Light A Cigarette, They Light Up Theirs. I Take A Drink And I Look In And They're Drinkin' Too. It's Drivin' Me Crazy. It's Drivin' Me Nuts.