“I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.”
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“Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat.”
“There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.”
“I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.”
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”
“I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.”
“Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.”
“Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.”
“I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.”
“By the physicality alone it was evident that we have one person [who] is incredibly smart, incredibly tough, and able to deal with him in a very, very calm and intelligent manner. And [Donald Trump] thought he was on The Jerry Springer Show.”
“I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.”
“No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.”
“After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.”
“Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there since beginningless time. In fact I was afraid of those jagged monstrosities all around and over our heads. "They're so silent!" I said. "Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sitting there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.”
“. . . if you close your eyes and begin to feel your breath, it will instantly become deeper and slower, and your mind will become calmer. Then gradually you'll become aware of your body, or more precisely the subtle sense of energy inside and around your body. At that moment, you exist as Energy-Consciousness, not as names, jobs, duties, roles, desires, and so on.”
“The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.”
“The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ”
“And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.”
“Most safely shall you tread the middle path.”
“A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.”