TO A MIND THAT IS STILL . . . THE WHOLE WORLD SURRENDERS. CHAUNG TZU
SUFFERING is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. MIGUEL de UNAMUNO
KEN KESEY. 1935-2001. “One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest”
YOU can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
PEOPLE THINK LOVE IS AN EMOTION. LOVE IS GOOD SENSE.
THE TRUTH doesn’t have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
ALLEN GINSBERG is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He’s a warrior first and a poet second.
IF you’re a conservative, why aren’t you behind conserving the land?
ME AND NORMAN MAILER have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
I’VE been to too many Dead concerts. There’ve been smoking holes where my memory used to be.
THE HAIGHT IS JUST A PLACE; THE ’60S WAS A SPIRIT.
LEARY can get a part of my mind that’s kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
TO HELL WITH FACTS! we need stories.
YOU’VE got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you’re just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
REINHOLD MESSNER 1944- Italian mountaineer, explorer, author.
The first person to climb the summits of all 14 eight-thousanders.
LIFE is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.
EACH MOUNTAIN IN THE DOLOMITES IS LIKE A PIECE OF ART.
A TOURIST follows a trail; a mountaineer finds one.
I AM MY OWN HOME, AND MY HANDERCHIEF IS MY FLAG.
PEOPLE DON’T LIKE REALITY, THEY LIKE CRAZY STORIES.
FOR ME, IMAGINATION IS MORE IMPORTANT IN CLIMBING THAN MUSCLE OR DAREDEVIL ANTICS.
I’m always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.
THE ART of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don’t die. That is adventure.
HANK WILLIAMS 1923-1953. “Diddy WA Diddy” “Dear Brother”.
I STARTED WRITING SONGS AFTER I HEARD HANK WILLIAMS. BOB DYLAN
ONE NIGHT I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs — and they’ll change your life in a hurry. CHARLES M. SCHULZ
I’D PUT HANK WILLIAMS’ PICTURE ON ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS. HANK WILLIAMS, jr.
FOLK SONGS express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.
YOU GOT TO HAVE SMELT A LOT OF MULE MANURE BEFORE YOU CAN SING LIKE A HILLBILLY.
If you’re gonna sing, sing ’em something they can understand.
I LEARNED TO PLAY THE GIT-TAR from an old colored man in the streets of Montgomery. He was named Tetot and he played in a
colored street band.
I DON’T KNOW ONE NOTE FROM ANOTHER.
FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO 1580-1645. “To A Nose” “Dream of Hell”. “Love that Endures” “Pleasant Story of Paul”
IN SHORT, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!
HE WHO spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
I WILL BE DUST, BUT DUST IN LOVE.
“LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE WITH GLADNESS”