“At a certain point in the tour, the amiable longhair, a guitarist named John Ferriter, feels a bony hand alight on his shoulder. He turns to [Aaron] Spelling. The silver-haired Primetime Prometheus removes the ornately carved pipe from his mouth and speaks, squinting through a scrim of aromatic smoke.

“‘I’m told you’re in a band,’ he says to John.

“‘Yes,’ Ferriter affirms. Somewhere in the outlandish complex of rooms and gardens, a clock is heard faintly to chime.

“‘Are you better than the Rolling Stones?’ Spelling asks casually.

“‘Well, I don’t think anybody’s better than the Rolling Stones,’ Ferriter replies quite reasonably.

“‘Hm,’ Spelling draws thoughtfully on his pipe, blows out an answering plume of smoke that Ferriter is obliged to politely wave away. ‘Then why do you do it?’ Spelling asks him.”

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

Kriya Yoga “releases the life force from the heart and brings it under control.”

“They found that you could cause muscle enlargement and growth just by putting a tourniquet on. Or if you combined mild exercise with a tourniquet.”